Collecting Stuff Quotes

#1. A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

Tony Hillerman

#2. The world, it treats you kind enough so long as you're not fightin against it.

Alden Bell

#3. I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my family, my daughter, my wife. I just love collecting memories of my trips, my experiences. And I think that's it. I'm not very glued to material stuff.

Jaime Camil

#4. History, for better or worse, is 'us' on a grand scale - full of secrets, beauty, fear, longing, and stifled love. Without history, our lives would not be complete, and we could not be, in the best sense, fully 'human.

Boria Sax

#5. I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.

Beverly L. Kaye

#6. Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.

Liz Phair

#7. There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

Portia De Rossi

#8. Screw being a better person.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little sound toys.

Z'EV

#10. Greed applied is prosperity realized".

~R. Alan Woods [2006]

R. Alan Woods

#11. The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.

Orrin Woodward

#12. Who amongst us has not committed treason to something or someone more important than a country?

Graham Greene

#13. I have a lot of mermaid stuff. I did start collecting a lot before I had children because I didn't know if I would have a boy or a girl. So I saved everything.

Jodi Benson

#14. I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.

Tionne Watkins

#15. Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

Ray Kroc

#16. I love collecting market stuff in Mexico. I have an etagere built onto the wall of my living room, which has cubicles that are lit and filled with super inexpensive pottery. You see them in a new way; they become museum pieces.

Rick Bayless

#17. For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

Kirk Hammett

#18. We try so hard to hold onto our stuff. We call it our treasure and expect to feel joy. But in God's economy if we want to gain, we must give up. For joy won't ever be found in collecting treasures. Joy radiates in our life only when we share our treasures.

Lysa TerKeurst