Quotes About Stamp Collecting

#1. I owe my life to my hobbies - especially stamp collecting.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Dave Barry

#3. It was on the order of coin or stamp collecting; no rational explanation could ever be given. And high prices were being paid by wealthy collectors.

Philip K. Dick

#4. Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

#5. That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

#6. If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Donald Hall

#7. I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.

Annie Sprinkle

#8. (Rutherford himself was fond of saying, "In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting" - words

Sam Kean

#9. All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

#10. Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

Mason Cooley

#11. Radicalism,like stamp collecting,has its time and place.Perhaps,it is useful in one's youth,but you have to move on.

Vinod Mehta

#12. All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Lord Kelvin

#13. Goblins are well-rounded, though you'd never think it from the dastard tales folk tell of us. For example, I enjoy stamp collecting as well as haggling.

Catherynne M Valente

#14. In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Lord Kelvin

#15. When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

Peter Lynch

#16. Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

Ernest Rutherford

#17. I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

Elvis Costello

#18. For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

Patty Murray

#19. Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced ... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.

Ernest Rutherford

#20. New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.

Bill Maher

#21. I pride myself on never using a cuss word on stage. Ever. I headline in Las Vegas every year, and this summer I am performing on an Alaskan cruise. Not too many comedians can pull that off. Funny thing is, my show doesn't change for Vegas.

Henry Cho

#22. When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit, praying therewith for the overthrow of all the works of Satan done through the evil powers.

Watchman Nee

#23. Dorian grunted, staring out at the forest. "Where's Sascha?"
"In the aerie."
"You left her alone?"
"As my mate would say- she's a cardinal, fully capable of protecting herself."
"So you left at least two others on watch."
"Of course I did.

Nalini Singh

#24. First month honey ... Next month pie ... Third month ... Get out here and work, you damn bitch, same as I.

Karen Cecil Smith

#25. It's finished. There isn't a stamp, or an error that I haven't collected. Not one. What shall I do now?"
"I think I'm beginning to understand," said Moomintroll slowly. "You aren't a collector anymore, you're only an owner, and that isn't nearly so much fun.

Tove Jansson

#26. Everyone needs cowboy boots, she told me, in case they need to ride a horse someday

J.M. Darhower

#27. My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Sandra Bernhard

#28. Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils

Roger Williams

#29. Here in New York City you can now walk around smoking weed and all they will do if they see you is write you a ticket. Unfortunately, the ticket will be to a Jets game.

David Letterman