Collecting Quotes

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

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the First Amendment, and I can't say anything at all.

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

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

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.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

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

I was really interested in collecting insects.

Collecting is my passion.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

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

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

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

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

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.

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

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.