Collecting Quotes - Page 7

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

  Robert J. Shiller

  Reality, Data

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• People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.

  Sarah Hall

  People, Tears, Jugs

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• The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.

  James Salter

  Past, Design, Sifting

  James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”

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• I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!

  Peter Kay

  Country, Home, Might

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• In collecting evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it; viz. from observation on medical the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.

  Astley Cooper

  Science, Animal, Three

  "Surgical Essays".

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• Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

  Gabrielle Roy

  Art, Knows

  Gabrielle Roy (1962). “The Hidden Mountain”, McClelland and Stewart

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• I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.

  Jenson Button

  Black, Age, Events

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• 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.

  Chris Murphy

  Real, Data, Challenges

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• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Becoming One, Ironic, World

  On Photography "Melancholy Objects" (1977)

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• Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Identity, Facts, Monsters

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• When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, "and I don't want to read that in your magazine!" In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.

  Simon Hoggart

  Writing, Interesting, Gossip

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Hack a phone? I wouldn't know how..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

  Kirk Hammett

  Devil, Growing, Stuff

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

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Data, Kind

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• I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Reading, Night

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Long, Pairs

  "Christian Louboutin tells Cinderella story to Jeanne Beker". Interview with Jeanne Beker, www.thestar.com. July 19, 2012.

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

  Vladimir Putin

  Jobs, Interesting, Collecting Information

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• Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

  Frank Herbert

  Gathering, Chaos, Ultimate

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.106, Penguin

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• I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

  Julian Assange

  Military, Self, Imagination

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• All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?

  Derrick Jensen

  Stars, Salmon, Coyotes

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• Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.

  Dominique de Menil

  Beautiful, Dream, Sex

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• Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

  Eli Broad

  Art, Obsessive, Collectors

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• A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!

  Sigmund Freud

  Facts, Collections

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• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Book, Ideas

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• We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government

  Mitch Daniels

  Government, Pockets, Doe

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.

  John Keats

  Flower, Knowledge, Eye

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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