Top 1200 Collecting Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.

I love money because I've earned it. I won sixty G's with my first knockout - and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society's rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting "facts" about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous "spiritual" obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.

Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

I started collecting crickets to study them. Now I expect they will be my companions for many years to come.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.

I grew up obsessively collecting Queen T-shirts and concert posters and rare U.K. imports of their CDs.

When I joined the Lakers and moved to L.A., I started getting more serious about collecting sneakers and dressing from the feet up.

It's not as though you feel satisfied after collecting a certain amount of stuff. Instead, you keep thinking about what you're missing.

When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable.

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

I like collecting fedoras. Whenever I go abroad for shows, I always look to buy one.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

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. You're just trying to make a love letter, a gift.

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

You've got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens - that's what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did.

The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.

My hobby first and foremost is collecting automobiles. I have a fairly nice, finished 6,500-square-foot structure that I call my garage.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

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

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I'm slowly collecting vinyl again.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence." [...] "In Ziploc bags." "I think they're Glad." "They look impartial to me.

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction.

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.

I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east London.