#collect

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. ↗

— Henry St. John

#body #collective #enjoyed #every #happiness

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#conceive #data #life #minutes #months

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#ammunition #armor #cloak #collective #court

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people. ↗

— Scott Walker

#bargaining #clear #collective #collective bargaining #debate

The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have cracked ordinary New England pegmatite - big, coarse granite - and laid bare clusters of red garnets, or topaz crystals, chrysoberyl, spodumene, emerald. They held in their hands crystals that had hung in a hole in the dark for a billion years unseen. I was all for it. I would lay about me right and left with a hammer, and bash the landscape to bits. I would crack the earth's crust like a piñata and spread to the light the vivid prizes in chunks within. Rock collecting was opening the mountains. It was like diving through my own interior blank blackness to remember the startling pieces of a dream: there was a blue lake, a witch, a lighthouse, a yellow path. It was like poking about in a grimy alley and finding an old, old coin. Nothing was at it seemed. The earth was like a shut eye. Mother's not dead, dear - she's only sleeping. Pry open the thin lid and find a crystalline intelligence inside, a rayed and sidereal beauty. Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetical flowers. They lengthened and spread, adding plane to plane in awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even the stones - maybe only the stones - understood. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#discovery #geology #memoir #rock-collecting #rocks

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. ↗

— James Lafferty

#been #collectors #common #common knowledge #finest

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. ↗

— James Lafferty

#american #american culture #collect #creations #culture

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#basic #basic idea #collection #comes #down

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#dialogue #doing #fashion #like #non-stop

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#doll #me #more #nothing #people