Top 100 I Collect Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About I Collect

#1. I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

Simon McBurney

#2. I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.

Bonnie Tyler

#3. I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists who don't have any money because I need to give them some money! Because I think that they should carry on whether I like it or not.

Ryan Gander

#4. What I collect? Interesting jobs. Always to my thrill and excitement, but ultimately to my exhaustion, I collect interesting jobs. If an interesting job comes along, I take it; that's why I do so many things. I'm lucky to be able to.

John Hodgman

#5. Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

Thomas Browne

#6. I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

Alec Baldwin

#7. I'm a huge fan of dystopian films. I collect them in my brain.

Brittany Howard

#8. I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen ...

Nikos Kazantzakis

#9. I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

Jason Mewes

#10. I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets as well.

Kellan Lutz

#11. There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

Aleksandar Hemon

#12. I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don't have the DVDs out. I put them in binders.

Bill Hader

#13. I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge.

Robert Wilson

#14. I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#15. Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

David Lynch

#16. I collect misspellings of my last name. Jame McRoy, McGros, Legras - it's become kind of a sport.

James LeGros

#17. I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

Gary Numan

#18. I collect records pretty assiduously, so I've got, like, a massive record collection. I still DJ.

Wilson Bethel

#19. How very interesting." Imogen gave a dainty sniff." I collect that you also poured some of the brandy down his lordship's throat. Was that part of the treatment?"
"Absolutely critical," Matthias murmured.

Amanda Quick

#20. I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women's Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They're all vintage but in new condition.

Theophilus London

#21. I collect crystals and gemstones, and I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. They give me positive energy and strength. They make me feel connected to the earth. I cherish them.

Isabel Lucas

#22. I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

Thomas Harris

#23. I have no problem with commitment - you can't have a real relationship without it. I can flip on a switch in my brain, and even if the next Brad Pitt is standing next to me, I won't look at him. But I can also turn that switch off, and then I collect attractive boys.

Megan Fox

#24. I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag.

Jessica Simpson

#25. I am a clown...and I collect moments.

Heinrich Boll

#26. I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.

Lindsey Wixson

#27. I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the bins.

Ted King

#28. I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

Bill Parcells

#29. It's hard to hold all the balls together in the arms and run, somehow, anyhow they fall. I collect and they fall again.

Himmilicious

#30. I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.

Theo Rossi

#31. I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.

Nolan Gould

#32. My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

June Squibb

#33. At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

Kami Garcia

#34. I'm a person who can take on the guises of people I meet. I'm a collector, and I collect personalities and ideas.

David Bowie

#35. Do you think me cruel?" Neith asked. "Oh, yes, I collect the pockets of my enemies." "Horrifying," I said. "I didn't know demons had pockets." "Oh, yes." Neith glanced in either direction, apparently to be sure no one was eavesdropping. "You just have to know where to look.

Rick Riordan

#36. I'm in love with dream catchers. I collect them from every trip I take.

Gillian Zinser

#37. Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

Action Bronson

#38. I collect books - a lot of books.

Kate Spade

#39. I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.

Melanie Brown

#40. I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.

Joss Whedon

#41. I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

Ransom Riggs

#42. I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

Colin Hanks

#43. Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

Ursula Andress

#44. I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.

Patricia Cornwell

#45. They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries.

J.K. Rowling

#46. I collect rare photographs ... I have two ... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car ... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.

Steven Wright

#47. I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.

Susan Hill

#48. I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits ... they're like souvenirs.

Miranda Kerr

#49. I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.

Zac Posen

#50. I am mad about hats. I collect them as souvenirs from my globe trotting.

Gillian Zinser

#51. I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.

Kid Rock

#52. I collect art, and I drink wine ... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

Jay-Z

#53. Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

Howard Hodgkin

#54. I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

Broderick Crawford

#55. I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.

Jason Marsden

#56. I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

Maggie Grace

#57. I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

Alan Patricof

#58. I collect a lot of data. We all do.

Peter Diamandis

#59. The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Roald Dahl

#60. I collect a lot of eco-friendly shopping bags that serve to separate my shoes other and other small stuff in my luggage.

Liu Wen

#61. I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

Leonard Lauder

#62. I collect a lot of clothes when I travel around the world.

Theophilus London

#63. I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush.

Gene Black

#64. I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

Juliette Lewis

#65. I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#66. I collect Wonder Woman - from comics to paraphernalia, and I even have a tattoo of her on my back. I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan!

Lights

#67. I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

Grace Slick

#68. I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

Chris Carmack

#69. But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Christopher Columbus

#70. Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#71. Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.

Karl Hyde

#72. 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

#73. I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags.

Jennifer Kaufman

#74. 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

#75. I collect a lot of art.

Robert Rodriguez

#76. I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.

Lake Bell

#77. I collect my thoughts as if they will stain me, murder me, and then resurrect me.
Markus Zusak, When Dogs Cry

Markus Zusak

#78. I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.

Robin Zander

#79. I buy things through the ShopStyle app on my phone, then have them delivered to a neighbour so Oliver doesn't see them arrive. When he's out, I collect them, cut off the labels, and bury them deep in the recycling box under the wine bottles.

Helen George

#80. Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.

Mia Sara

#81. My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

Brian May

#82. I collect pictures of adorable puppies on my phone. I have little room for anything else.

Cory Michael Smith

#83. Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are Â£20,000.

Tamara Ecclestone

#84. 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

#85. I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.

Simone Signoret

#86. 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

#87. I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

Shelagh Delaney

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

Dave Mustaine

#93. 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