Top 287 Collections Quotes & Sayings

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

I'm really into short-story collections and essays; they're my jam.

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

Audiences don't come to theatres going by reviews. Even if a film is rated low, the collections won't get affected.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

My sisters and I are very hands-on with our collections. I am really passionate about kids' clothes.

When deciding what shows to attend, I always choose collections that I can see myself wearing and that go with my own personal style.

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.

I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.

I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

I love men's clothes better than women's collections.

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'

My collections are full of adaptable pieces: within the energetic lifestyle of L.A., they are able to take you from the beach in Malibu to the red carpet in Hollywood.

I make music in terms of collections.

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

I don't believe in doing collections anymore.

All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections.

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

My father had one of the biggest vinyl collections I've ever seen.

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

My bedroom was my executive office. Buyers came to my apartment and that's where they saw the collections.

My collections are a reflection of my personality, and the satisfaction I get from wearing my own designs is indescribable.

I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.

There's a moment in one's life when you should really be de-accessorizing instead of making more collections.

What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would argue - it's because our "voicier" writers hew so closely to one given set of dictional tics that we as readers can't read the books all the way through in a single sitting, because if we did, the stories and their narrators would all start to bleed together.

I think our customers don't need anything. They just want something special. This is why we do collections - not just the Spring fashion show, but the pre - Fall and cruise lines too. The customers love to find something in the shop they don't see in a magazine. This is the trick about the cruise and pre-Fall collections. Nobody knows about them. When you go to the shop, you really find something you don't see anywhere else.

The key to my collections is sensuality.

It seems only natural to me to present my men's and women's collections together.

I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music.

I find inspiration for my line of jewelry from traveling and from my lifestyle. I have three collections: New York, Palm Beach, and Paris.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

It's our job as curators to open up Hampton Court to visitors, and to look after the buildings and collections for the future.

I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be glamorous and beautiful and fit well.

My James Taylor albums sat quite comfortably next to my Rush and Aerosmith collections.

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.

I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true.

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.