Collecting Quotes

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

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

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

Collecting is my passion.

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

I was really interested in collecting insects.

Collecting has always been in my blood.

Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

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

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's really therapeutic and I don't really know why.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

While the business of "collecting" lyrics and melodies happens all the time, when it's time to corral them all into something, I have to be in a good mood, ready and willing to work.

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

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.

Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.