#collection

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#nostalgia #recollection #love

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #memory #metaphor #recollection #humor

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#allies #analysis #capabilities #collection #defense

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are. ↗

— Childe Hassam

#decidedly #easily #effort #exhibitions #large

I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators. ↗

— Thomas Kincade

#collection #copies #evening #great #had

...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been. ↗

— Jane Austen

#feelings #going-away #memories #parting #recollections

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#great #great passions #historical #passions #trivia

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#always #big #collection #collector #fights

What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work. ↗

— Stefano Gabbana

#come #easily #i #i can #more

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#bed #big #book #collections #goes