Collect Quotes

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers. View quote
Chelsea Handler
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars. View quote
Isabel Allende
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it. View quote
Stanley Tucci
Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves. View quote
J. G. Ballard
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. (Chinua Achebe)
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left. View quote
Ang Lee
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. View quote
A. A. Milne
Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus. View quote
Gracie Allen
From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced. View quote
Jane Austen
The scientific method I was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine. View quote
Tomas Tranströmer
I am a clown... and I collect moments. View quote
Heinrich Böll
Learn, compare, collect the facts! View quote
Ivan Pavlov
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. View quote
Bill Gates
I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it. (Marcel Proust)
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. View quote
Vladimir Putin
What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers. View quote
Howard Hodgkin