#collect

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#collects #espionage #finished #finished product #gets

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets. ↗

— Ursula Andress

#around #buy #collect #even #frames

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#collecting #could #create #fulfilling #i

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. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#convey #dictionaries #dictionary #english #english language

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#become #buying #collectively #credit #far

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual. ↗

— James Belushi

#across #beautiful #body #chair #collective

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#collecting #guitars #i #into #nine

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#nostalgia #recollection #past

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#drink #make #miss #shoot #strong

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. ↗