Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

Jerry Yang

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

What we are is an organization that collects and saves something that hasn't been collected before, and that's food history,

We were only talking about the tax collector position as a last resort. It's not like that's the direction we're moving to.

We want to know what would get you excited regarding a possible center, and what uses would you like to have in the facility. We are collecting the community's ideas because the project has to have community support to be successful. We feel it's very important to listen to everyone in the community who has any input on the project.

George Tenet

We didn't steal the secret that told us what the plot was, we didn't recruit the right people or technically collect the data, notwithstanding enormous effort to do so,

This is UCI's first nurse-led grant sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research. The exercises will be performed by a team of neonatal-trained nurses and data collected and interpreted by a group that includes nurse investigators.

This is truly the definitive collection for these stars. And all of this footage comes from the original rightful owner of the 35mm content, VCX.

This is a vote of confidence in the power of collective bargaining. It was an exercise in persistence.

They're going to collect the data, we'll review it and we'll be the ones to release it.

Dalai Lama

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

I know a lot of those types of things can't be replaced but if you have a gun collection worth $8,000, at the very least, you'll be reimbursed for their value.

In 2005, we ended up $400,000 in the red. We were not collecting for the costs the co-op had. It just wasn't a stellar year.

Carl Guardino

If there was a giant sucking sound a few years ago, the sound is now a collective sigh of relief.

James Levine

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

David Robertson

It ends up costing the state three dollars for every dollar they collect in taxes.

I just started collecting them and writing on them and learning how to place photographs on them.

Billy Beane

I'm collecting them all. But obviously, Danny's smarter than I am because he decided to go to Stanford. He's a great player, but he's also a great kid. He's the kind of guy you'd like to have as your son, just a really impressive young man.

Wendy Kopp

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

Dasha Zhukova

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

Abraham Lincoln

If you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguised than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.

Isabel Allende

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

I'm very fortunate because I have a designer who is still alive. So I picked up the phone when I was looking at this collection and called him.

Insurers have never collected a penny in flood-insurance premiums. If they're forced to pay, it could quite possibly be destabilizing and lead to the insolvency of smaller insurers in the area.

Elijah Wood

In some ways that's more gratifying, it requires more of your own energy and your own input, and everyone's kind of collective energy, and that's...in a way that's more gratifying.

Joss Whedon

I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.

Josh Henderson

I like to find those shirts that they only made one of. That's my approach to style. But my vintage T-shirt collection is a little ridiculous.

Geoffrey Beene

I really went out of my way to simplify the collection and offer many, many different pieces so that a woman would have the option of putting together as much as she would like or not.

David Duchovny

I'll join your squad if you dont mind having a 37 year old who collects Barbies!

John Oates

I read and fantasized about the European racing scene by pouring over my old collection of Road and Track that goes back to the late 40's.

His job is being phased out, ... He could collect unemployment or seek employment elsewhere.

His guilt is proven by all the evidence collected on all counts of the indictment,

Kofi Annan

By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these eleven men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective consciences,