#collect

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book-stores #books #london #reading #life

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#culture #dreams #history #imagination #dreams

Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors. ↗

— Vincent Starrett

#men

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot. ↗

— Edmond About

#collected #country #every #examined #i

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#chaos #chaotic #collector #every #memories

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised. ↗

— Edward Bond

#became #collective #experience #goodness #in the past

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#collecting #hobby #like #nice #preserving

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. ↗

— Louise Brown

#books #collection #cookery #cooking #eating

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back. ↗

— Tory Burch

#back #been #born #brings #childhoods

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#barack #barack obama #bringing #collective #committee