Collecting Quotes

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. (Ernest Rutherford)
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else. View quote
Tom Clancy
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality. View quote
Robert J. Shiller
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial. View quote
James Surowiecki
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual. View quote
Sue Kelly
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design. View quote
James Salter
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness. View quote
Vincent Starrett
To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
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. (Saki)
I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon. View quote
William Thomas Beckford
Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers. View quote
Howard Hodgkin
True, you're the weakest of us all, but you're still one of the five, and there is power in collecting the complete set." He paused, then grinned. "The complete Set! That's funny! Now let's consume your energy and entomb your soul, shall we? View quote
Rick Riordan
My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange. View quote
Florence Welch
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. View quote
Alan Ritchson
I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn't just killed for stuffing. View quote
Arthur Darvill
The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters. View quote
Adam Rickitt
We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits. View quote
Chris Chocola
I enjoy wine collecting and great food. View quote
Deep Roy
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know? (Gotye)
I'm always collecting emotions for future reference. View quote
Harlan Howard
I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. I'm always ripping things out of magazines, and always collecting quotes from the Internet. When I was 17, I loved AIM. I was obsessed with my buddy list! View quote
Jenna Ushkowitz
I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s. View quote
Lady Starlight
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time. View quote
Louis J. Freeh