Collect Quotes

“She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed.
"These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-"
"No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones."
"Awww.”
― Rick Riordan, The Maze of Bones

“I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That’s what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don’t see him as a living individual painter any more.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.
There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.
All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest

“What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible....
Be very chary of revealing your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest

“For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“Your self-defense becomes a self-defeat when you are doing it for selfish reasons! It's not about you and your pocket alone; let it be for the collective joy of your entire neighbourhood and beyond!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to ‘cleaning’ as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings – and anyway, she didn’t need to know her mark’s entire pedigree or life’s story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read – on those rare occasions – her books were always dog-eared from the back.”
― Christina Engela

“Collect the unusual so you have things to ponder. - The Malwatch”
― Scaylen Renvac

“It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.”
― Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore

“The missions were always changing- sometimes collecting jars of rain, paper bags of hiccups, adopting lost moonbeams and folding them into cake batter. Or perhaps investigating glittering slug trails left in the moonlight, finding the owners of abandoned buttons, or playing the sousaphone for caterpillars still in their cocoons.”
― Michelle Cuevas, Beyond the Laughing Sky

“There are people like me!...

That you are afraid of me!?...

This is ain't a problem.. people like me collect money... you don't do something correctly or you aren't doing your job properly... I am here to punish ya.”
― Deyth Banger, Afraid - Part 2

“Collecting stones does not make fruits. (Des pierres -
Cueillir - N'en fait - Des fruits)”
― Charles de Leusse

“A new dream always causes a feeling frenzy. - The Malwatch”
― Scaylen Renvac

“It's always an inconvenience when someone you owe comes to collect.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“This was also my introduction to the kind of prayer called a "collect" (KA-lict, emphasis on the first syllably). A collect is a short written prayer that gathers up (or collects) similar prayer concerns and articulates them in a broad, general way. Put differently, it crystallizes or condenses a variety of similar ideas into one prayer that,,, is something that an entire communion can lift up together.”
― Terry J. Stokes

“This was also my introduction to the kind of prayer called a "collect" (KA-lict, emphasis on the first syllable). A collect is a short written prayer that gathers up (or collects) similar prayer concerns and articulates them in a broad, general way. Put differently, it crystallizes or condenses a variety of similar ideas into one prayer that... is something that an entire communion can lift up together.”
― Terry J. Stokes, Prayers for the People: Things We Didn't Know We Could Say to God

“Don't stop to fail but to collect and review the weak points.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“It is well known to police corruption researchers that the police will not collect all available evidence when police officers are accused of illegal activity.”
― Steven Magee

“I don't collect women (lovers). I don't collect men (friends). I don't collect useless trinkets (Funko Pops). I don't collect manufactured experiences (I VOTED stickers). I do collect authentic interactions, and it's rare that a consoomer provides a fertile situation.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes