Top 1200 Collecting Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

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

Collecting is my passion.

In my early teens, I started collecting soundtrack albums.

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

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

I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.

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

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world.

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.

I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.

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

Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

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

I was really interested in collecting insects.

Collecting has always been in my blood.

I collect words and phrases and cut things out of newspapers and keep scrapbooks and write down ideas in my phone or 10,000 notebooks all around my house. It's not very organised, but I keep collecting, so I did have a lot of material to help me to write songs.

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

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.

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

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

I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.

I want to make coin collecting cool again.

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

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

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

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

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

I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.

The idea of anyone collecting compact discs just seems bizarre to me.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

I like collecting chickens.

One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

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

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

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

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

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

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

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

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

Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

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

Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour, which is the root of envy; the desire to conquer and be the deciding factor; pride in the glory of power; the urge to adorn oneself and to be liked; the craving for praise; concern and anxiety for physical well-being. All these are of the world; they combine deceitfully to hold us in heavy bonds.

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

I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.