Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Anthony Warlow

I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about how long these things have lasted - some of it is 400 years old - I find the history of these things extraordinary.

Collectors purchase these and they are used for target practice.

Collectors are all ages. We do have junior clubs. It's a good hobby for a long life. We have a lot of members well into their 90s.

Bob Wickman

If I stink, I'm not going to play just to collect a paycheck.

John Caudwell

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

Jesse Williams

I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

I don't want to diminish the collection at all, because there are some good things here. But I think that people who are going to be interested in this collection are the people who remember Marge Schott. It's more of a reflection of the kind of person she was.

However many come, that's the money we'll collect and give to the center.

Jackson Katz

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

Isabel Allende

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

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,

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.

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.

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!

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.

It was the front porch approach. For most of the songs, we were all playing all the time, as opposed to layering the sound. It's a collection of dumb little songs we make up when we should be doing something else with our lives.

It's a way to validate baseline skills in the technology. It's not so much about the technology and what you do with the data once you collect it, but in the deployment and the day-to-day management of RFID systems that we're looking to validate with this certification.

John Daley

It's a collection of some openings, some retirements and some new positions due to growing enrollment.

It is our view and the collective view of all the advisors that we surrounded ourselves with that this speaks of more financial engineering,

It was a collective team effort tonight, and our kids did the little things right to win this one.

Jon Gruden

It was a collective effort, ... The offensive line, as we've said all along, is a work in progress. So far we're showing improvement.

It was a collective effort. No one was being selfish and everyone contributed in some way.