Quotes About Book Collections

#1. The Box, shuck-face, the Box!

James Dashner

#2. I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#3. I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for comic book heroes. They have these cool stats on the back. I had collections of these things. I still have a lot of my collection at home.

Brett Dalton

#4. I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It's all there. I planned my wedding on it. When I had a kid, I planned all his stuff on it. So it was nice to discover that I wasn't the only one.

Ben Silbermann

#5. I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Martin Cruz Smith

#6. One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing nothing about literature, would place a price on the books. (about secondhand literature book)

Murzban F. Shroff

#7. When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me..

Eminem

#8. I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

Kesha

#9. Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

Isaac D'Israeli

#10. Translated 'Non omnia possumus omnus' as 'No possums allowed on the omnibus.

Connie Willis

#11. A collection of books is the best of all universities.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

Marie Kondo

#13. [On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.

Louise Erdrich

#14. The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

Dixie Lee Ray

#15. Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there.
Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.

Agatha Christie

#16. collections and omnibuses (a book that contains

ReadList

#17. They make a profit from interest on the loan, not repayment of the loan. If a loan is paid off, the bank merely has to find another borrower, and that can be an expensive nuisance.

Anonymous

#18. As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.

Mae Jemison

#19. He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.

John Sayles

#20. Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#21. I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

T-Pain

#22. I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section of a person's brain and lifestyle. I think everyone should photograph their book spines and make a website. Seriously.

Phil Elvrum

#23. Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources.

Rabindranath Tagore