#collection

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement. ↗

— Justin Winsor

#becomes #books #collection #goes #good

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it. ↗

— Steven Wright

#collection #i #keep #largest #perhaps

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#because #collection #different #different ways #facts

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#collections #i #milan

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#age #blessing #harvest #old #old age

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. ↗

— Albert Camus

#after #best #books #collection #days

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language. ↗

— Jim Clark

#collection #communications #digital #internet #just

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#indispensable #little #men #our #pretty

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#copies #deluxe #did #edition #expensive

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ↗

— Ben Elton

#collection #conversation #even #holding #natural