Top 100 Collection Of Quotes
#1. I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.
Candice Accola
#2. We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
William Boyd
#3. I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians I got to play with, a collection of mementos. I'm kind of the opposite of a hoarder, as I try to get rid of everything.
Chris Wyse
#4. A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories ... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people.
Peter Orner
#5. The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.
David Ignatius
#6. If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will ultimately become a very large collection of turds.
Charlie Munger
#7. Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.
John Green
#8. I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes.
Ferdinand De Saussure
#9. Indeed from an Aristotelian point of view a modern liberal political society can appear only as a collection of citizens of nowhere who have banded together for their common protection.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#10. Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
Alan Dundes
#11. I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
Gary Calamar
#12. I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots ... This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.
Father Damien
#13. Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.
Amit Ray
#14. You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
Daniel Woodrell
#15. Because that's what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It's not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that's where it might eventually be displayed. It's a page.
John Heffernan
#16. So far, I had a solid collection of my honest opinions ...
Kiera Cass
#17. 'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
Chris Cornell
#18. Do you suppose I would learn you the way a scholar learns a book? That you are nothing to me but a collection of suppositions, to be stored in my memory and written down for verification? No, Margaret. I know you.
Courtney Milan
#19. I wanted to make a late-night-type show that happened to be in the morning for moms. Bravo was more interested in a blend of my books 'Momzillas' and 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut,' which is a collection of nonfiction essays.
Jill Kargman
#20. Those of us who are in this world to educate-to care for-young children have a special calling: a calling that has very little to do with the collection of expensive possessions but has a lot to do with worth inside of heads and hearts.
Fred Rogers
#21. There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of poetry. And they're really the only rules.
1: Quit talking about it and start.
2: Focus and finish it.
Nicholas Trandahl
#22. Science is a collection of successful recipes.
Paul Valery
#23. Her next solicitude was to furnish herself with a well-chosen collection of books: and this employment, which to a lover of literature, young and ardent in its pursuit, is perhaps the mind's first luxury, proved a source of entertainment so fertile and delightful that it left her nothing to wish.
Fanny Burney
#24. The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'
John Wooden
#25. In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.
Noam Chomsky
#26. What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web of conjectures that, if true, point to the existence of a theory.
Lee Smolin
#27. A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
Alton Brown
#28. It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
Gillian Flynn
#29. Everyone's past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.
Andrew Davidson
#30. I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
Jack Prelutsky
#31. One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
Lynn Abbey
#32. A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals.
Augustine Of Hippo
#33. I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.
Thomas Kincade
#34. Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.
Sherry Turkle
#35. I'm not an easy lay, I won't do a one-night stand, and my father is a mob boss with a short temper and a collection of guns. Still want to take me out?" - Ana Avdonin
Bethany-Kris
#36. Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.
Eve Ensler
#37. NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.
Walter Cunningham
#38. Expertise is not a single skill; it is a collection of skills, and the same professional may be highly expert in some of the tasks in her domain while remaining a novice in others.
Daniel Kahneman
#39. A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for finely crafted furniture.
Kat Daughtry
#40. 'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.
John Burnside
#41. I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
Callan McAuliffe
#42. We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.
Meg Haston
#44. What I find in Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations, many of which seem impossible to justify in the light of modern knowledge,
Robert M. Pirsig
#45. To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.
Carlos Maria Dominguez
#46. The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
Guy Debord
#47. It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?
John Dos Passos
#48. An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".
Henry Mintzberg
#49. The community of life that we see here at any given time isn't just a random collection. It's a collection of successes. It's the remainder that is left over when the failures have disappeared.
Daniel Quinn
#50. Successful organizations and companies share the stage with their best storytellers. Brands are a collection of narratives. Unleash your best stories.
Carmine Gallo
#51. I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
Olivia Thirlby
#52. The word "happy" had started to sound wrong in Darcy's head, like a random collection of Scrabble letters. "What about
Scott Westerfeld
#53. What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.
Ted Cruz
#54. The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet the needs of a later age ... A few scholars go even further, doubting even the existence of Muhammad.
Daniel Pipes
#57. I'm so excited that my label Rocker Records has partnered with Cleopatra Records to put out this collection of RARE and UNIQUE kick ass rock !!!
Carmine Appice
#58. One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#59. No matter how screwed up life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start where you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know tomorrow's gonna be better than yesterday
Robyn Schneider
#60. I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#61. If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#62. Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.
Warren Ellis
#63. The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.
Bertrand Russell
#64. I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
Anne Sexton
#65. In that moment, in the
smoky haze, Celi looks grown up and wounded, and I
realize how young I really am in my long pink nightgown.
My sisters have a whole collection of broken hearts in a
book, and I haven't even gotten my period yet.
Sarah Ockler
#66. You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.
Mark Lawrence
#67. All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization ... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.
Aldous Huxley
#68. I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.
Amy Sedaris
#69. A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.
Richard Fortey
#70. The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job
John A. Keel
#71. The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#72. I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.
Augusten Burroughs
#73. Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.
Grant Morrison
#74. I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
Zooey Deschanel
#75. Where most people she knew were recognizably constant, Soter comprised a collection of posturings, guises, a composite of masks, so many that she had no idea if any one of them had ever been the true Soter, or if there had never been anything but masks.
Gregory Frost
#76. History wasn't just a collection of dates I memorized from textbooks; it was tactile and ever present
Jessica Spotswood
#77. I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
Augusten Burroughs
#78. A new collection of matter and information to present to the universe and to which it in turn will be presented; different, arguably equal parts of that great ever-repetitive, ever-changing jurisdiction of being.
Iain M. Banks
#79. Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
Nicolas Chamfort
#80. If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together.
Nina Garcia
#81. I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.
Michael Scott
#82. A collection of Bach organ fugues (nerds have a thing about Bach),
Neal Stephenson
#83. I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#84. I'm just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what everyone else expects of me.
Rollo May
#85. A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.
Guillaume Musso
#86. A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.
Tim Cook
#87. [M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#88. I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hair nets.
Wayne Campbell
#89. What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas
#90. The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
Jacob Lew
#91. Romance readers love a wealthy hero, and why not? There's value in a man able to hire a helicopter, a coach and six horses, or a collection of werewolves to do his bidding - and the bidding of the lucky woman on his arm.
Sarah MacLean
#92. Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.
Mary Parker Follett
#93. Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.
Megan Lindholm
#94. Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.
Wayne Thiebaud
#95. she stands before him as a collection of clashing traits - the face of a girl with eyes that have seen Hell, the figure of a virgin with the body posture of experience, a complexion that demands dark hair with golden.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#96. I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
Natalia Kills
#97. The subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.
Carolyn Wells
#98. Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
Veronica Roth
#99. As I followed him along the sharp black stones, I could hear Link's voice in my head. Bad move, man. He's gonna kill you, stuff you, and add you to his collection of idiots who followed him back to his creepy cave
Kami Garcia
#100. How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems to diminish the book's authority, making the author seem like somebody who is just hanging on to the gates of Literature, rather than safely settled inside.
Alice Munro
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