Collections Quotes

• Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Giving
  • Creative
  • Add

• 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 Blackmore's Night
  • Car
  • Guitar
  • Levels

• A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Novel
  • Details
  • Instance

• I am a collection of the family's body parts.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Body
  • Collections

• The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently from the entirety. Included in the entirety is the observer.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Reality
  • Energy
  • Universe

• An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Achievement
  • Magnificent
  • Finest

• My dad went to medical school, and when he studied he listened to music so he has a ridiculous CD collection. That was always something we had growing up from him; there was always good music playing at the house.

  

  William Clark Green
  • School
  • Growing
  • Medical

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

  

  Sandy Gallin
  • Moderation
  • Collections

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

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Tragedy
  • Collections
  • Showcases

• Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.

  

  David Dark
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Difficult

• There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not enjoying it and it turns into clutter.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Space
  • Problem
  • Enjoy

• I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing for me.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Spiritual
  • Missing

• I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • School

• I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Persons
  • Collections

• I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Stories
  • Term
  • Return

• If fashion is for everyone, is it fashion? The answer goes far beyond the collections and relates to the speed of fast fashion. There is no longer a time gap between when a small segment of fashion-conscious people pick up a trend and when it is all over the sidewalks.

  

  Suzy Menkes
  • Fashion
  • Conscious
  • Speed

• Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Photography
  • Museum
  • Mortis

• Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact with works hadn't arrived on the scene yet. That, I think, I first ran into at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., where a man named Marty Martin Amt decided that he really felt his job - part of his job, as an assistant to the director was to make the collection available to interested people.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • People
  • Remember
  • Scene

• I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Book
  • Apartment
  • Knitting

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

  

  Stephen Sprouse
  • Made
  • Collections
  • Sketch

• Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We Apple want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Companies
  • Businesses

• There will never be a chanel collection without black

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Black
  • Collections

• I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

  

  Mike Oldfield
  • Lawyer
  • Younger
  • Collections

• The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the Centre Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou."

  

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  • Said
  • Ends
  • Directors

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