Welcome to our dedicated space for collecting quotes! Quotes have the power to inspire, motivate, and provoke thought. Whether they come from renowned figures, anonymous sources, or your own experiences, quotes have a way of encapsulating profound wisdom in just a few words. This page serves as a treasure trove for those who appreciate the beauty and impact of words.
Quotes span a vast array of topics, from love and friendship to perseverance and success, offering insights into the human experience in all its complexities. They can provide solace during challenging times, ignite passion for pursuing dreams, or simply offer a fresh perspective on life’s intricacies. Whether you’re seeking words of encouragement, enlightenment, or reflection, you’re sure to find something meaningful here.
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I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. Alan Ritchson
One of my favorite stories is from Obama’s first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every day, collecting signatures and supervising the other people who did. If you were supposed to get 300 signatures and you only got 299, you had to face the wrath of Michelle. Jodi Kantor
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I’m collecting. Gianni Versace
My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I’m not doing that means that I’m a huge success. Jesse Tyler Ferguson
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, ‘and I don’t want to read that in your magazine!’ In which case I wouldn’t use it. But if they didn’t remember to say it, I’d nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject. Simon Hoggart
For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff – you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there’s a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly. Kirk Hammett
One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites. Hillary Clinton
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. Calvin Coolidge
It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you’re writing all the time. You’re collecting songs. I’ve had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. Keith Urban
Sometimes, the intelligence community does legal collection against a legitimate foreign intelligence target and that target interacts with U.S. persons, against whom our people thus end up collecting information as a collateral matter. Benjamin Wittes
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana’s shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana’s economy in total. Bobby Jindal
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. Peter Dinklage
In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. Lord Kelvin
Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing. Joe Shuster
I’m the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn’t write another book. I’d be so busy collecting awards! I’d be posing for the cover of ‘Vanity Fair!’ Ann Coulter
Neither of my parents are involved in theater or acting, but they are very artistic. My mom is a painter; she’s an artist. She went to school for fashion illustration. My father is into collecting antiques and fine wine, so they’re both really creative people. Elena Kampouris
I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones. Andy Goldsworthy
Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction. Ursula Andress
I’ve always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the other toys kids got. That’s what I wanted. I’ve been collecting records and DJing my whole life, and I thank my parents for that. They had a big record collection and really imparted the magic of it on me. Mayer Hawthorne
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. Alan Brien
I collect… for a long time, I collected Nike Air Max 90s, this specific shoe. And it really is nerdy, because collecting sneakers is not that nerdy, but if you don’t wear them, and you keep the box fresh, if you’re that fanatical about it, then you leap several categories into super-dork, and that’s the way I was. Charlie Hunnam
Yeah, if someone’s selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they’re trading it I don’t mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand. Ian MacKaye
My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can’t afford them for their proms. Lauren Bush
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king’s power or, later, people’s power. Orhan Pamuk
I love collecting things from auction – we Brits really are hoarders and collectors. Jonathan Anderson
I’m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful – collecting these shards of spirituality – that we may be helping to bring about a healing. Leonard Nimoy
To me, as a keeper, you don’t learn anything from sitting in the stands collecting a paycheck. You don’t learn from eating the organic lunches at the buffet, you know what I mean? You can only learn from experience. Kasper Schmeichel
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install ‘trial’ versions. Barton Gellman
I didn’t play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. Edward G. Robinson
I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And – and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the – the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey. Mackenzie Phillips
Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots. Bob Schaffer
It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. Ayn Rand
Collecting is my passion. Ursula Andress
In the late ’70s, I had a band – the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name – and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records. David Johansen
The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters. Adam Rickitt
Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures. Andy Goldsworthy
The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes. John Shadegg
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues. John Mayall
The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences – beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you. Twinkle Khanna
I’m a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds. Ville Valo
For me, all collecting must be done out of the love of the art. That being said, investment knowledge is absolutely mandatory so that you are really buying what you think you are buying. Tim Matheson
I’m very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev. Ronnie Dunn
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. Ray Bradbury
I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. Christopher McCandless
When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names. Stjepan Hauser
The way I was raised, you get a new pair of sneakers when the old one gets messed up. But when I got to high school, I started dating girls and trying to fit in, and I realized everybody was collecting Jordans. When I would get my paychecks, I wouldn’t even take money. I would just trade them for sneakers. Kerby Jean-Raymond
These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I’ve been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries. Thomas Frank
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely. Julie Andrews
I’m an avid collector of toys. I got everything. Name it. From the Easy Bake Oven to Barbies to every TV show doll, racing cars… I’ve been collecting since I was a little kid. Biz Markie
I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I’ve been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself… and lyrics that I’ve been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven’t done anything with. Evan Rachel Wood
Collecting is more than just buying objects. Eli Broad
I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. I’m always ripping things out of magazines, and always collecting quotes from the Internet. When I was 17, I loved AIM. I was obsessed with my buddy list! Jenna Ushkowitz
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting. Jay Roach
The Gun Owner Privacy Act protects the right to keep and bear arms by preventing the Feds from collecting data to monitor and log gun ownership in America. This legislation will give Americans legal recourse and the ability to sue the Feds and collect damages for records illegally stored. Marjorie Taylor Greene
We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinsons. Aaron Ciechanover
I’d go stupid collecting and counting my money. Thelonious Monk
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. Laurell K. Hamilton
I’ve spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it’s not about flaunting my wealth. I don’t have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I’ve been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event. Jenson Button
I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I’m into collecting. Daisy Berkowitz
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality. Robert J. Shiller
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry. Ron Eglash
We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits. Chris Chocola
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual. Sue Kelly
In the high-stakes and elitist world of music collecting and fandom, we operate from an ab ovo perspective. The seed, the first incarnation – that is the most pure, the most lauded. Minutemen trumps Firehose, Throwing Muses beats Belly, Joy Division over New Order, Operation Ivy ruled Rancid, Undertones instead of That Petrol Emotion. Carrie Brownstein
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. Rod Blagojevich
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. Elizabeth Wurtzel
There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life. Klaus Fuchs
By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes. Richard Lugar
I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my family, my daughter, my wife. I just love collecting memories of my trips, my experiences. And I think that’s it. I’m not very glued to material stuff. Jaime Camil
I’ve always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. W. G. Sebald
If you are searching to figure out what is true and what is not, you will have a sad life. It means you have too much time, and you should do a hobby – like collecting art. Maurizio Cattelan
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial. James Surowiecki
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That’s why I think I’ll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know? Gotye
Recently I’ve been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn’t afford them. Now I can so I’ve been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they’ll be worth a lot of money. Mackenzie Crook
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting. Mason Cooley
My hobby first and foremost is collecting automobiles. I have a fairly nice, finished 6,500-square-foot structure that I call my garage. Bill Goldberg
Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works. Thomas R. Insel
I’m always collecting emotions for future reference. Harlan Howard
I like collecting chickens. Orianthi
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. John Connolly
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them. William Bligh
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical. Keith Haring
I enjoy wine collecting and great food. Deep Roy
In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes. Jean Pigozzi
My work is entirely surgical, and Col. Starr has given me a very interesting task of collecting nerve cases that have had the nerves sewn together. I may also do some experimental work for him. Frederick Banting
OMG, I have my ‘Mamma Mia!’ playbill framed in my bedroom. It was magical! I totally cried… a lot! I remember collecting playbills my entire life, and then to be in one… I have no words. Frankie Grande
I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That’s probably my favorite one. What’s funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine. Chris Paul
Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby. Henry Rollins
I’ve been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the ’60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on ‘Mariachi.’ Ani DiFranco
I don’t remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn. Paula Yates
I’ve been collecting rocks since I was 8 and have over 200 different specimens. Janet Yellen
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. Louis Freeh
I get a lot of ‘Oh, you’ve been gone.’ I wasn’t gone. Just because you didn’t see me doesn’t mean I wasn’t working and collecting checks. I just wasn’t singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists. Tionne Watkins
You’ve got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens – that’s what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did. William Binney
Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia. Trevor Dunn
In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We’d travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats. Rosecrans Baldwin
Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits. John Shadegg
I’m an audiophile and have been collecting records for as long as I can remember. Sam Richardson
My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There’s a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange. Florence Welch