Collecting Quotes - Page 14

• Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.

  Francois Magendie

  Humble, Humility, Science

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• I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Art, Greatness, Expression

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• Individuals interested in donating can call The Bridge. We do still need food, paper products, money, cleaning supplies - if people could call and coordinate donations. People loved donating clothing to The Bridge - it was an avenue; if they could put their focus on collecting cleaning supplies - toilet paper, food etc. - these items are a priority.

  Maggie Elizabeth Jones

  Bridges, People, Focus

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• I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.

  Beverly L. Kaye

  Art, Children, Creativity

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• The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

  John Muir

  Fall, Rocks, Climbing

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.2009, e-artnow

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• I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.

  L. S. Lowry

  Grateful, Tenants, Models

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• When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived fellow I met, was allowed by our laws to become absolute despot of as many men, women and children, as he could cheat, steal, or gamble money enough to buy,-when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children, of young girls and women,-I have been ready to curse my country, to curse the human race!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Girl, Country, Children

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.12

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• I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Two, Ebay, Vintage

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Party, Organization, Receiving

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Ultimate Collection: Memoirs, History Books, Biographies, Essays, Speeches &Executive Orders: America and the World War, The Ancient Irish Sagas, The Naval War of 1812, Hero Tales From American History, Winning of the West, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, History as Literature...”, p.3451, Madison & Adams Press

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• I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.

  Iris Apfel

  Years, Eyeglasses, Fleas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You'd be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem is, most monkey stories end tragically.

  David Sedaris

  People, Pet, Stories

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Mother, Nice, Reading

  "Reginald". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "Reginald on Christmas Presents", 1904.

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• They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Thinking, Waiting

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• Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

  Ernest West Basden

  Art, Talking, Special

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• I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers.

  Geoff Johns

  Buying, Digital, Reader

  Source: collider.com

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• After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

  Bill Vaughan

  Ants, Pleasure, Graves

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• For the protection of state and welfare of the people, a ruler shold collect all types of wealth. By suing devices of sama, dama , danda, bheda , he shold increase income of the state, strong administration helps in collecting different type of taxes fro exchequer.

  Chanakya

  Strong, People, Political

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• My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Passion, My Own, Has Beens

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1926). “Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney”

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• Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line. ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave -- you may be given the opportunity.

  Pat Heim

  Believe, Opportunity, Boss

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• Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

  Carol Gilligan

  Spring, Rain, Love Life

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• I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

  Alec Baldwin

  Beautiful, Men, Eight

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• In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Teacher, Singing, Opera

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli On Finishing His Master’s And His ‘Passion For Life’". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2013.

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• When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

  Christina Stead

  Money, People, Gold

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.

  Isaac Marion

  Wall, Memories, Moving

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Trying, Sentimental

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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