#collecting

I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event. ↗

— Jenson Button

#age #been #biggest #black #collecting

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#absolutely #collecting #legalized #more #necessary

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#collecting #come #even #geared #get

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#book-collecting #poetry #temptation

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#blogging #changing #collect #collecting #communicate

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#collecting #committing #did #i #larger

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#being #collect #collecting #eat #extravagance

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference. ↗

— Harlan Howard

#collecting #emotions #future #i #reference

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#collecting #i #i am #now #obsessed

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now. ↗

— David Elliott

#collecting #doing #gets #ideas #more