Collection Quotes

• A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Words
  • Design
  • More

• I have a knife collection.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Collection
  • Knife

• ..As a matter of fact, last winter I was painting on ivory; I've already got a collection of forty studies, but these are original miniatures, of a kind I've never seen before, entirely done with the point of a brush, with details that are closer to the brushwork of Velásquez than to that of Mengs.

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Painting
  • Winter
  • Collection

• Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Weakness
  • Collection
  • Armies

• It is a discreetly sensual act of disclosure, showing their pieces together in public. And assembling these lacquers also records their assignations: the collection records their love-affair, their own secret history of touch.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • History
  • Secret
  • Records

• It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Single
  • Pity
  • Collection

• I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used ...

  

  Bob Daisley
  • Collection
  • Guitars
  • Polish

• I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Physics
  • Collection
  • Discomfort

• I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • World
  • New York
  • Villages

• I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians I got to play with, a collection of mementos. I'm kind of the opposite of a hoarder, as I try to get rid of everything.

  

  Chris Wyse
  • Opposite
  • Picks
  • Hoarder

• Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.

  

  Andy Barrie
  • Collection
  • Toronto
  • Encountered

• It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Desire
  • Common

• We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Time
  • Death
  • Dying

• The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • America
  • Military
  • Pride

• I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Design
  • Cause
  • Collection

• There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • People
  • Collection
  • Check

• My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Record
  • Collection
  • My Dad

• The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • World
  • Exist
  • Collection

• Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Passion
  • Design
  • Clothes

• Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Warning
  • Stamps
  • Devote

• If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Record
  • Collection
  • Van Halen

• The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Aspect
  • Churches
  • Spoils

• If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they have in common. Either on purpose or without meaning to, I shape them all in the same kind of way, because I'd rather the album feel like a galaxy of things that all have to do with each other. I do that with sonic elements, too - it's a matter of each record having its own specific identity.

  

  Will Sheff Okkervil River
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Songs

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