(672 quotes found)
“The most discouraging feature of the mania for book-collecting is, that it grows by what it feeds on, and becomes the more insatiable the more it is gratified.”
William Mathews
“More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.”
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
“We hope Dracula can bring new blood to the hobby of stamp collecting.”
Barry Ziehl
“I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and I take tree bottles of Robitussin and drink them really quickly. Then I set my hands on fire-I have to write whatever comes to mind pretty fast, before my hand burnsoff." "I just let whatever comes out, comes out without thinking about it to much. Some of it I keep, some I toss out, some of it I turn into giant cigarettes and somke 'em. I think everybodu should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.”
Beck Hansen
“It was so beautiful. Such extraordinary colors, classical, and refined and very structured as well. A superb collection.”
Catherine Deneuve
“Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.”
Warren G. Bennis
“A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced; it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.”
Lincoln Kirstein
“The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.”
Charles Munch
“Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.”
Corey Hart
“Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one”
Augustine Burrell
