Collection Quotes

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein)
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. View quote
Henri Poincaré
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour. View quote
Macaulay Culkin
Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection. View quote
Anna Sui
If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church. View quote
George Carlin
I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time. (David Fincher)
What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts? View quote
Joshua Reynolds
I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered on the beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it. View quote
Steven Wright
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. View quote
Ben Elton
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. View quote
Denis Waitley
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. View quote
Lynn Abbey
Europe is a collection of free countries. View quote
Douglas J. Feith
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. View quote
Louise Brown
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. View quote
Tom Glazer
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes. View quote
Daniel Handler
As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings. (Thomas Ligotti)
Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality. View quote
Valerie Solanas
The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. View quote
Ayn Rand
First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through. View quote
David Allen (author)