Collections Quotes

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Charles Darwin

Mind, Become, Facts

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
Tom Stoppard

Philosophy, Between, Whole

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion, Dialogue

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.
Daniel Radcliffe

Money, Car, Beautiful

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
Nicolas Chamfort

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
Alexander McQueen

Everything, Find, Around

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.
Emma Watson

Places, Russian, Quirky

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
James Wolcott

Music, Lost, Rather

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.
James Wolcott

Best, Writing, Enjoy

People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more frequent and accessible collections, particularly for those living in flats.
Lucy Powell

Living, Able, South

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
David Sedaris

Humor, Put, Place

I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.
Nicole Richie

Proud, Stage, Share

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.
Paul Nurse

Time, Great, Different

Always my collections are made of different influences.
Jean Paul Gaultier

Different, Made, Influences

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.
Rachel Roy

Women, Happy, Strong

Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind.
Stella McCartney

Beautiful, Between, Whether

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.
Eva Herzigova

Birthday, Milan

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
John Deacon

Write, Group, Songs

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
Alison Bechdel

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
Alan Dundes

Forward, Become, Learn

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
Chad Harbach

Money, Wisdom, Short

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.
Chita Rivera

Easter, Around, Taking

Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.
Jean Pigozzi

Art, Fun, Before

When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.
Lisa Gardner

Trust, Crazy, Done

What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work.
Stefano Gabbana

Work, Others, Easily

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
Martin C. Smith

Poetry, Book, Big

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
Camilla Belle

Time, Art, Made

I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.
Ashley Olsen

Love, Fashion, Around

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.
Stephen Sprouse

Everything, Made, Sketch

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
John Sladek

Short, Often, Story

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