Quotes about Collection
In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.
- Mark Twain
What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
- Ayn Rand
Our library isn't very extensive, said Anne, but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.
- LM Montgomery
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages — enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
- Lewis Carroll
she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed;
- Lewis Carroll
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like France or England, to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.
- Aldous Huxley
Like so many men he had found that he had only one or two ideas - that his little collection of pamphlets now in its fiftieth German edition contained the germ of all he would ever think or know.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts.
- Frank Herbert
Bauer 's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.
- Albert Schweitzer
My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection.
- Diane von Furstenberg
The walls of your comfort zone are lovingly decorated with your lifelong collection of favorite excuses.
- Jen Sincero
I'm a collector of designer backpacks.
- Andre Iguodala