Compiling Quotes

#1. Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#2. I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have quite lunatic agendas for what I want to achieve. They won't make sense to anyone other than me, but it is what I've spent most of my life doing.

Michel Faber

#3. I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.

Sloane Crosley

#4. Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.

Kirk Curnutt

#5. I don't think of you as perfect.
"Oh ... ok." My eyelashes blinked in rapid succession and my brain started compiling the list of
all my imperfections, "It's because of my height? My seepage of trivial facts? My granny panties-

Penny Reid

#6. The very act of compiling information about your Deity can be its own prayer. It

Kenaz Filan

#7. I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series to compiling everything into a trade paperback in about 2005.

Tim Fish

#8. Results in the real world came from slow, dogged work, compiling facts and building conclusions and deductions based on those facts. And a little luck never hurt either. A

David Baldacci

#9. People enjoy being able to articulate their interests and define themselves by selectively compiling and resharing content created by others

Tom Standage

#10. Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?

Mikhail Bulgakov

#11. I've had some pretty awful jobs that I don't miss, like working on a nightclub door, or compiling VIP lists at 3 A.M. in the morning, but sometimes it's just got to be done.

Luke Evans

#12. In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

Cecelia Ahern

#13. Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.

Mitch Kapor

#14. I've been compiling a list of art project ideas for a long time. These are ideas of things I would love to see someday. They range from the practical - jackets with woodstoves in them - to the sublime - images of nuns on waterslides.

Misha Collins

#15. I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

Morrissey

#16. Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

Callum Keith Rennie

#17. Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

Richard Paul Evans

#18. Make no mistake: we will win, and groups like ISIL will lose.

Francois Hollande

#19. Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.

J.C. Ryle

#20. When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. "& I love Wordplay

Elijah Cainaan

#21. Motherfucker, you haven't got the fucking balls God gave a goddamned church mouse. You crawled out of your mama's tattered old pussy, grabbed hold of her milk stained titties, and you ain't never looked back, motherfucker.

David Sedaris