Top 573 Collecting Quotes & Sayings

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

I was really interested in collecting insects.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Collecting is my passion.

I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

I've been collecting jerseys and shoes my whole career.

The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.

The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

I started collecting my artist friends, artists like myself who nobody had yet noticed. In everything, all I am collecting, so to speak, are my friends - artist friends.

We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those relate to both the extensive longitudinal clinical records that Kaiser is collecting and the genome sequence variations.

I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger artists make wonderful prints. Prints can become very valuable. That's how I began collecting.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

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

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.

I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors.

My Picassos and Ferraris - those are kind of just toys. Those aren't the things that matter. What matters in the car collecting or the art collecting is to learn about it, and then actually not the acquisition but to put them into a collection that I think is curated. You know, so something of me in the collection that the artist actually created the work. If I was going to collect art, it had to be something of me, my eye, things that appeal to me so when I looked at it, it would really look like a collection, not just an accumulation of stuff.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

Collecting has always been in my blood.

I've been collecting rocks since I was 8 and have over 200 different specimens.

A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it.

I'm an audiophile and have been collecting records for as long as I can remember.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Bellator is collecting talent, collecting world-level talent all across the board.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

I want to make coin collecting cool again.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.

The thrill of autograph collecting is getting close to a world you're not part of.

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

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.

I view my job more almost as a field biologist or anthropologist, where I'm collecting practices. I'm collecting techniques.

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time.

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

I like collecting chickens.

One of the things I've always loved is collecting telling little details.