Collections Quotes

• I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Beach, Nature

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• Always my collections are made of different influences.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Different, Influence, Made

  Interview with Eric Wilson, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. October 26, 2007.

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• I also plan to release a ballads collection.

  Vinnie Vincent

  Release, Ballads, Plans

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• An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, Army, Men

  "Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius".

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• I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Cooking, Eating

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• Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Guitar, My Favorite, Electric

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• Europe is a collection of free countries.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Country, Europe, Free Country

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• Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Pain, Mistake

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• Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Oysters, Literature

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• I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Car, Levels

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• I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

  Salma Hayek

  Couple, Heart, Stolen

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• I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

  Paul Nurse

  Fruit Flies, Mutants, Different

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• I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

  Sandy Gallin

  Moderation

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• I've got a great collection of photography.

  Elton John

  Photography

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• The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Library, These Days

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841)

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• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

  Lynn Abbey

  Passion, Historical, Literature

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• A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

  Phillip Noyce

  Country, Australia, Wire

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• Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.

  David Fincher

  Couple, Dvds, Yeah

  "David Fincher - Seven & Fight Club". Interview with Paul Guyot, www.dvdtalk.com. 1999.

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• There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

  Michael Nesmith

  Song, People, Groups

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

  Stephen Cambone

  Demand, Able, Accepting

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• My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Firsts

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• My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

  Keith Urban

  Country, Father, Records

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• The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Being Yourself, Fall

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• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Albert Camus

  Teacher, Retirement, Book

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