Collection Quotes

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

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.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

A sequence works in a way a collection never can.

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.