Quotes About Being Collected

#1. There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their very nature do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are things that we're trained to look for.

James Reece

#2. Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#3. Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Jim Bishop

#4. The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

Stephen Cambone

#5. You can't win every week.

Caryl Churchill

#6. When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

Orson Scott Card

#7. (Interested in being a better writer? Go buy yourself a copy of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.) The

Ann Patchett

#8. Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.

Neil MacGregor

#9. If nothing else, Prophet prided himself on his ability to be irrational. Everyone was always raving about how being cool, calm, and collected was the best way to be. Prophet found the exact opposite worked most of the time. Tommy

S.E. Jakes

#10. I just try to be the same guy I've always been. Calm, collected, and being a good decision-maker and delivering the ball to the right guys.

Scott Tolzien

#11. I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.

Taika Waititi

#12. The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected.

Xenophanes

#13. As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

Chanakya

#14. I should know better than to lie. But a lie is what they need to carry on, and if my deceit saves even one of them, it is worth the cost to my soul.

Victoria Aveyard

#15. He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.

Barack Obama

#16. I feel like, if the guys can look at me in the huddle and see a calm and collected face, that they're going to relax a little bit. The way I look at it, leadership and being that guy is, don't be someone you're not. Don't be a hoorah guy jumping around and clapping your hands if you're not that guy.

Matt Flynn

#17. For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

Dan Deacon

#18. By simply being honest with yourself and your food choices, you have stepped away from unconscious eating and toward a place of fuller responsibility. This is the essence of taking charge of your life.

Bob Harper

#19. Being in a foreign place, preferably for the first time, having seen many things and collected new impressions, and returning to an empty hotel room with an hour or so to blow. That mix often yields fine results.

Stefan Sagmeister

#20. What's old doesn't need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#21. I held the dubious honor of being the one person who could make cool, collected Nick lose his temper.

Jennifer Echols

#22. Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

Groucho Marx

#23. News, like men, traveled slowly; intelligence of Barbarossa's death in Cilicia took four months to reach Germany.16 Medieval man could eat his breakfast without being disturbed by the industriously collected calamities of the world; or those that came to his ken were fortunately too old for remedy.

Will Durant

#24. We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the world. Who we are is simply a finely-curated catalogue of those.

Maria Popova

#25. 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