Collecting Quotes

Collecting Quote of the day

The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

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

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.

I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn't just killed for stuffing.

Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.

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

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

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

I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

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

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

Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

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

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!

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

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

Life is about collecting good people around you. You can’t have enough good people.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

Collecting is my passion.

Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

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

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

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

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'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

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.

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

I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.

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

I was really interested in collecting insects.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

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

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.