Collections Quotes - Page 9

• I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hair nets.

  Wayne Campbell

  Jobs, Hair, Names

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• We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

  Chita Rivera

  Easter, New York, People

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• Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Character, Science, Stories

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• Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.

  Bent Larsen

  Practice, Example, Quotation Marks

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• For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it more convenient to hold. He used to boast that he had made Lyell publish the second edition of one of his books in two volumes, instead of in one, by telling him how ho had been obliged to cut it in half. ... his library was not ornamental, but was striking from being so evidently a working collection of books.

  Francis Darwin

  Book, Cutting, Science

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• The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Reality, Common Sense

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• For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Character, Stories, Crafts

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• The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

  Paul Dirac

  Math, Practice, Data

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• We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock.... The colors - well.... There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders are going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Rocks, Color, Interesting

  "Man Walks on Another World". National Geographic article, ngm.nationalgeographic.com. December 1969.

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• I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Stories, Dredging, Novel

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• I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

  David Hume

  Perception, Different, Movement

  David Hume, Thom Chittom (2004). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Selections from a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.200, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

  Wes Craven

  Historical, Mask, Figures

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• I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Common Sense, Age, Remarks

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• An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Achievement, Diaspora, Finest

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• Collage – SS13 offers a very controlled and pure do-it-yourself attitude. The collection shows a juxtaposition of very different materials, prints and colours, therefore giving the wearer a possibility to combine the garments in different ways.

  Raf Simons

  Attitude, Giving, Different

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• My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

  Raf Simons

  Couple, Ideas, Assistants

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• Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

  Derren Brown

  Magic, Dull, Should

  "On Deception". Book by Harry Houdini, foreword, 2009.

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• Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

  Richie Hawtin

  Kids, Years, White

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• I like 'Elle' magazine. I love things online, like when all the big brands have a fashion show, I like to see the new collections.

  Tiesto

  Fashion, Magazines, Online

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.

  Nanette Lepore

  Fashion, Party, Past

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• Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition.

  Lubov Azria

  Inspire, Different, Tribes

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• What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

  Norman Douglas

  Teaching, Men, Fire

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• You're only as good as your record collection.

  DJ Spooky

  Records, Spooky

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• My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  New York, Father, New Orleans

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• The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

  Hugh Prather

  Swimming, Past, Offering

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