Top 100 Collect Quotes
#1. Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it ...
L.M. Montgomery
#2. Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.
Gwen Davis
#3. 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.
Adam Rickitt
#4. September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#5. All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.
Taiichi Ohno
#6. We accumulate pain, collect it ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a mountain, so we can climb up onto it, waiting for or demanding sympathy: "Hey, do you see how big my pain is?"
Marlena De Blasi
#7. Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.
Eva Green
#8. I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
Ian Frazier
#9. It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.
Natalie Goldberg
#10. The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.
Ed Bearss
#11. Don't forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on the benefits of the journey.
Tanya R. Liverman
#12. It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
Billy Gibbons
#13. You know in a startup, you only need three people. You need someone who can make something. You need someone who can sell it. And you need someone to collect the money. That's the only three roles in a startup. So which one are you?
Guy Kawasaki
#14. Books aren't something you sell! They're something you buy and collect and accumulate in big piles!
Hideyuki Kurata
#15. I'm a tomorrow's person. I don't collect memorabilia.
Gerry Anderson
#16. All this time Lock and I had managed to be civil to one another. No drama, all efficiency. But look him in the eyes? No, I couldn't do that. That would cut me wide open, and there would be blood. Lots of blood. I'd crumble into a heap on the floor then beg him to collect the pieces.
Cat Porter
#17. I am the man who is going to collect your soul and fuck your woman. Not necessarily in that order, but both will involve screaming.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#18. Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#19. I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.
Chris Burden
#20. Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture ... and thus have historical significance.
James Lafferty
#21. I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.
Steve Nash
#22. Nothing is truly free. Every gift has a price, paid for by someone in coin, favors, expectations or goods.
Things get a little sticky when Life shows up wanting to collect on something you thought was free.
Always ask the price.
Jaime Buckley
#23. If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.
Logan Mankins
#24. But if Mother Theresa went to collect all the prizes she is awarded, the death rate in Calcutta would soar.
Umberto Eco
#25. I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
Tori Amos
#26. I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. "Who's Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?"
"They won't accept the charges," I murmured.
Richelle Mead
#27. I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
Zac Posen
#28. The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.
Edward C. Prescott
#29. Some people collect stamps or beer mats; Mum collected waifs and strays, cats, dogs, frogs, people, and as she believed, a whole host of "little people." Had she been confronted that night with a lion,she'd have made the same comment "The poor thing.
Fynn
#30. He thought there must be a place, like a dead-letter office, where everyone's longing went, yearning that was sent out, day after day. He thought it must collect somewhere, in a dank basement room, the mass of it rising and rising like water, and with no end in sight.
Jane Hamilton
#31. One cannot collect all the beautful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#32. I collect words
they are sweets in the mouth of sound.
Sally Gardner
#33. When you collect bad loans ... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.
John Stumpf
#34. We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people.
John O. Brennan
#35. I collect things that just look retarded.
Ahmet Zappa
#37. Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
James Cook
#38. You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
Felix Dennis
#39. I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.
Haruki Murakami
#40. Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
Caitlin Moran
#41. An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.
Miranda July
#42. I do not just buy books; I collect them with the idea that they fit into a pattern of knowledge.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#43. People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.
Malcolm Gladwell
#44. I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.
Adele
#46. Like a garbage truck, we need a 'lie-truck' which will collect lies from everyone's houses every morning, even every hour!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. had made Cory, Adam, and I collect when we were kids that she glazed
Jessica Gadziala
#48. You can't collect everything," Pat says, putting the dress in with the giveaways. "Life is not a hobby.
A.M. Homes
#49. For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#50. I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.
Wylie Dufresne
#51. I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They started in 1925, and then they went out of business around 1958.
Terry Zwigoff
#52. The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.
Edward Alsworth Ross
#53. African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
Mos Def
#54. Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.
George Bancroft
#55. She'd not allow Daniel Barrett to escape her so easily. She'd placed a bounty on his heart, and she intended to collect.
Karen Witemeyer
#57. I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
Dave Mustaine
#58. I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about how long these things have lasted - some of it is 400 years old - I find the history of these things extraordinary.
Anthony Warlow
#59. There must be a little memory bank, a library or storage unit in my brain, that just tucks away memories of other people. I suck in as much of life as I can. I don't do it deliberately - I'm just curious. Dangerously so. I collect visual and aural patterns, physical human patterns, from experience.
Debra Lawrance
#60. California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California.
Craig Benson
#61. Cecy, help me to collect the ducklings, and put them back into the box! If we were to place your muff on top of them they will very likely believe it to be their mother, and settle down!
Georgette Heyer
#62. Ben often comes here. It's some kind of kangaroo graveyard. He likes to collect kangaroo bones. What can I say? It's just something Stink Collectors do.
J.E. Fison
#63. We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.
Bjork
#64. Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
Austin Kleon
#65. Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.
Chris Hardwick
#66. I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.
Joe Perry
#67. To collect photographs is to collect the world.
Susan Sontag
#68. I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect
Shelagh Delaney
#69. Little moments attach themselves to other little moments and collect into big dreams. We become what we experience.
Miley Cyrus
#70. When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one's mood, collect one's thoughts, and have a plan.
Fennel Hudson
#71. I collect my thoughts, I choose my words,
Whenever I decide to talk to you.
But...
I feel like a dumb, without a tongue,
Whenever I reach in front of you.
I wonder why it happens to me?
even when my feelings are genuine and true.
Saad Salman
#72. It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.
Mick Jagger
#74. Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.
J. David Lewis-Williams
#75. Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you and pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?
Ayn Rand
#76. Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few.
Mark McKinnon
#77. Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.
Nelson A. Miles
#78. Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it ... a speelycaptor ... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.
Neal Stephenson
#79. Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
Bobby Ray Inman
#80. I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.
Simone Signoret
#81. In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.
Robert Mueller
#83. We don't collect fancy cars or houses, horde money, make investments. We travel the road, collect sights and sounds instead. Respect and pride are practically currency here.
C.M. Stunich
#84. There are people who just collect a bunch of footage and then edit it later. You definitely feel more protected when a director is moving on when you've actually felt something happen and you know they're watching intently.
Matt Damon
#85. He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject
what a burden his life was.
Philip Pullman
#86. When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.
Michael Clarke Duncan
#87. It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.
Wanda Koop
#88. Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,
to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.
Jonathan Swift
#89. Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.
Jenny Offill
#90. I asked him who had put into the crowd's head the idea of attacking the Jews. Salvatore could not remember. I believe that when such crowds collect, lured by a promise and immediately demanding something, there is never any knowing who among them speaks.
Umberto Eco
#91. I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags.
Jennifer Kaufman
#92. Go out and collect data and, instead of having the answer, just look at the data and see if the data tells you anything. When we're allowed to do this with companies, it's almost magical.
Steven Levitt
#93. As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.
Arnold Bennett
#94. How is selfworth measured today? By the amount of likes a post gets, by how many friends we collect, by how many retweets we accumulate? Do we even know what we really think until we post our thoughts online and let others tell us if they are worthy?
Kasie West
#95. Each of her soothing utterances battered me more grievously than the last - as if I were traveling in a perverse ambulance whose function was to collect a healthy man and steadily damage him in readiness for the hospital at which a final and terrible injury would be inflicted.
Joseph O'Neill
#96. The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.
Howard Tayler
#97. Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or more generations they should have a small fortune of 'ancient' famous items.
Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea
#98. If people throw rocks at you, collect them and build something ...
Jim Garrett
#99. Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process.
Marsha Blackburn
#100. I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.
Neil Patrick Harris
