Collections Quotes - Page 2

• My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

  Sergio Aragones

  Source, National Geographic

  Q&As, sergioaragones.com.

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• What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Education

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• A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Business, Men, Littles

  "Gigi". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1945.

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• In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

  Aleister Crowley

  Willpower, Talent, Virtue

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Law, Mind

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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• I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Museums, Opponents, Election

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• But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

  Barbara Jordan

  Cities, America, Groups

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Remarks at dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere, Washington, D.C., 29 Apr. 1962

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• Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

  Valerie Solanas

  Community, Society, Units

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Inspirational, Angel, Thinking

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• The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

  Robert Smithson

  Eye, Artist, Museums

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• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.

  Quentin Tarantino

  House, Albums, Records

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• I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Cold Hearted, Serious, Paradox

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• First I have a collection of all of the albums I've ever done, on vax.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Albums, Done, Firsts

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• My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.'

  Debbie Reynolds

  Years, White, Dresses

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Wise, Wisdom, Different

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• I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

  Ron White

  Ems, Cuban Cigars, Lasts

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• So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

  Aaron Neville

  People, Giving, Want

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• We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

  Mike Easley

  People, North Carolina, Common

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• Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

  Jim Henson

  Keys, Puppets, Detroit

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• When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

  Daniel Johns

  Purple, Parent, Records

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

  David Rockefeller

  Mean, Museums, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

  Donatella Versace

  Criticism, Would Be, Easy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

  Brad Paisley

  Rocks, Cds, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

  Fay Wray

  Book, Advice, Next

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