#collection

John Armato, a Public relations executive, cherishes his growing Library of Candidates. When people ask him if he's actually read all those books, he asks them if they've actually eaten all the food in their kitchen. "It is good to put up a supply of books; it increases the odds that you'll have what you want when you're hungry for it," he says ↗

— Steve Leveen

#collection #library #reading #food

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books. ↗

— Carlos María Domínguez

#bibliophiila #book-collecting #books #collection #libraries

When I was seventeen I found a man, or maybe he found me. Away from home for the first time, out of reach of my father’s archaic restrictions and my mother’s culinary insistence, I cut off my hair, dropped my Christian name, wore black and toyed with anorexia, passing incognito among the city workers, just another ant in that vast heap. ↗

— Nell Grey

#objects-of-desire #short-story-collection #solstice #home

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it. ↗

— Keith Urban

#country #exposed #father #how #i

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#collections #facts #general #grinding #kind

A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#caught #collection #creativity #designers #essentially

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#collection #definitely #everyone #failure #fear

I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left. ↗

— Vera Wang

#come #designers #fashion #i #left

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