Collect Quotes

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

I collect things that just look retarded.

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.

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.

I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.

I don't really collect guitars.

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.

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.

When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.

All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.