Top 25 Collected Works Quotes
#1. My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
Jacob Rothschild
#2. The good thing about Heavy Books (Ex: The Collected Works of William Shakespeare), is that when you're glue-ing something you can use them for weights.
John Arnold
#3. Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.
Edward Snowden
#4. How good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment! Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.
Jane Austen
#5. Dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.
John Green
#6. ... worry is an emotional state that I abhor. It tends to be self-absorbed and short-sighted, and holds no purpose other than to waste energy and distract the mind from what actually matters.
Penny Reid
#7. Why did some of the impoverished children in Indonesia create a happy playtime with only some sticks and string, while others sat bored and sullen?
Shawn Achor
#8. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.
Carl Orff
#9. The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.
Randall Jarrell
#10. People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner.
Seth MacFarlane
#11. The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it we draw provision for our journey, the collected wisdom whose harvests are all ours to reap and carry with us, though we may never live again in the fields that grew them.
Freya Stark
#12. Straightening, I asked, "What do you believe in?"
"Old love songs, best friends, the collected works of J.R.R.Tolkien, crispy pork egg rolls with just the right amount of grease, the Big Boss and eternity."
"The Big Boss?"
Zachary pointed up, as if to heaven.
"Pious,"I teased.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
#13. Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.
Rene Carayol
#15. When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation.
John Tesh
#16. The mystics and their "collected works." When one addresses oneself to God, and to God alone, as they claim to do, one should be careful not to write. God doesn't read ...
Emil Cioran
#17. I always try to make a voice to go with the characteristics - if the guy's a hothead or he's cool, whatever.
Peter Cullen
#18. I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.
Samuel West
#20. Inspiration is that Power that makes you Seek and reach the Peak.-RVM
R.v.m.
#21. It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Samuel Johnson
#22. Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.
C. G. Jung
#23. My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.
Gabrielle Zevin
#24. [T]he pain was unspeakable, worse than reading the collected works of Edith Wharton.
Kevin Hearne
#25. If the Chandos portrait is not genuine, then we are left with two other possible likenesses to help us decide what William Shakespeare looked like. The first is the copperplate engraving that appeared as the frontispiece of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623 - the famous First Folio.
Bill Bryson
