Collected Quotations

Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather.

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

I collected X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil comics. I definitely had a few Captain America comics lying around in those protective plastic baggies.

I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.

I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.

Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.

Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

We found some 3,600 birds dead at the farm on Friday evening. We collected samples and conducted tests.

We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form under extremely high temperature conditions. And yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the solar system.

Unless the French government comes up with something more concrete, saying that the $8.50 will be collected and distributed in such a way so that all the stakeholders welcome this new distribution medium, this won't go through.

U.S. intelligence has the legal right to monitor foreign communications as they go through to U.S. service providers. However, even though something is legal doesn't make it right. I'm not American; I don't really care about what data is being collected about American citizens. I'm worried about us, the foreigners.

We know we don't count all animals but the counts are good indicators. We also use computer models based on information collected during the hunting season.

We know how much was collected and how much is unclaimed.

We actually collected about 40.5 million with about 7 million dollars pledged

There is a possibility that they won't pay them back, or that they will pay them back at a different rate than they collected them.

The only way to do this properly is to have the state pass a law, and then have an independent agency or organization of some kind take the data collected by police at traffic stops and analyze it.

We usually average about $1.5 million in ticket sales over an entire year. But during the past eight ticketed events at the civic center, we've collected $1.1 million in sales, since November. Since November, we've started to turn the corner, and things have really taken off.

This program only applies to sales taxes collected from this site. And the money will be sent back to Russell Lands for their investment. This program does not apply to any of the businesses that may be located on this property.

What I can tell you is that the Defense Department does have legitimate interests in protecting its installations, in protecting its people, and to the extent that they use information collected by law enforcement agencies to do that, that's an appropriate activity of the United States military.

We've never collected a rental tax before, so there is only speculation on the amount of revenue it might generate, ... If it were to generate more than is anticipated we may not need a lodgings tax increase, or maybe not as much of one. I think within a few months -- three or four -- we will have a good idea of what it will generate for the year.

Many of the smaller nonprofits in town have incurred significant out-of-pocket expenses. My concern is that the money collected by the United Way for the express purpose of reimbursement to nonprofits be disbursed in a timely and efficient manner as Mrs. Wormington has assured me that it will be,

Many posted privacy statements are hard to locate, read, and understand, ... Further, other aspects of what have come to be known as fair information practices, like the requirement that online participants have a reasonable opportunity to see what information has been collected about them and to correct errors that creep into a database, have barely been addressed.

So far this year we have taken in 108.5 tons of recyclable versus the estimated 65.6 tons collected last year.

She stays calm and collected on the course. She has really improved her short game. Her length off the tee helps, too.

Since Liberty joined forces with Cell Phones for Soldiers in late 2004, our offices have collected over 42,000 phones providing 4.2 million minutes of calling time. The need continues, and this is a year-round project for us.

She played a great game. She made a ton of saves and collected all the rebounds.

Mr Moore has come in and he is absolutely everything I wanted. He is cool, calm and collected and he scored two great goals tonight. He is poised on the puck, a good goal scorer, has a great shot, and is going to be a great addition to this hockey club.

Mr. Brokaw's successive accomplishments in broadcast journalism over the last 40 years, along with his more recent achievements in documentary reporting and authorship, have enlightened audiences, providing them with a unique perspective on our nation and its past, and stirring within them a passion about the historical events that have shaped our present day, ... Mr. Brokaw's work dovetails with the Foundation's mission - to educate, enrich, and inspire a deeper appreciation of our country's heritage through the collected evidence of its history. We greatly appreciate The Boeing Company's generous support of this tribute celebration.

Of course, in future we will integrate the fees collected on international routes and domestic routes.

My first encounter with Dawson's work was the totems. One of the things you read about William is how his wife called his work 'toys.' At one time I collected a lot of toys, and the totems appeal to me for their whimsical quality.

My great concern is that the tax will not benefit anyone because trading activity will decrease and the revenue collected by the government will therefore fall as well, and the trading will go to other markets.

My father died. His ornithological knowledge, never collected or collated in anything like a comprehensible book - it was five suitcases and two trunks of scattered notes - died with him. A loss of knowledge. I made a film in small part reparation.

Now the Arctic Snow Goose Venture has reconstituted a working group, asked them to give a progress reports and analyze all the new data that has been collected because there are a lot of ongoing research. We'll look at all the new stuff that is out there, check the population models and make whatever improvement to the information and come back with more recommendations of where we go from here.

Obviously this is the first time anyone has ever collected money from the tobacco industry, ... It underscores the importance of continuing my leadership role and Mississippi's leadership role in getting a comprehensive (national) plan.

Nothing in the materials collected suggest that there was anything on the banned list of substances.

People wanting to give and do stuff and communities were organizing efforts and we put the word out on this Friday. Collected two semi-loads. We feel well blessed to get to do it.

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

One of the goals of our research on software quality and security is to define a baseline so that people can measure software reliability in both open source and proprietary software projects. No technology can find all bugs in software, but we have collected a critical mass of data through an automated and repeatable analysis framework to show how software quality can be concretely assessed, compared, and ultimately improved.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting, ... Mr. Spitzer's office has collected a mountain of evidence on the potentially illegal promotion practices of not only Sony BMG, but also other major record companies, independent promoters and several of the largest radio station groups.

Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let him passed. Then Hiroshi came back at me and we were all running closely together until I collected a rear-right slow puncture and that cost me the chance of winning the stage.

But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

I have a feeling he's collected hundreds of thousands if not millions from people who need the money the most. He prayed on people with good hearts and good will. To give to charity to help the needy; it's not only part of the human nature, it's part of the faith.

I feel like, if the guys can look at me in the huddle and see a calm and collected face, that they're going to relax a little bit. The way I look at it, leadership and being that guy is, don't be someone you're not. Don't be a hoorah guy jumping around and clapping your hands if you're not that guy.

He recognizes that there are a lot of revenues being collected by, in particular, about four of these governors around the country, and these revenues are being collected but aren't being sent back to the central government,

We look at the adult population and see how it changes from year to year. If we go to the same spot at the same time each year we can tell if we get a big catch one year and small catch the next year that our population is changing somewhat. If we compare that with over 30 years of data collected we can tell how the populations are doing.

He didn't put anything in the bank. He collected it. It's like living with a person during the Depression. It was all in a safe. Before that, he had it hidden throughout his room. I guess his grandfather does that, that's where he got it from.

Green home building is at a tipping point among the builder population. The data we recently collected indicates 2006 to 2007 is the time frame from which the builder population moves from a majority less involved to more involved with green building.

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

lawfully collected from individuals who knew what they were contributing to.

Our government came as a natural result from the ballots collected from election posts in Palestinian areas. It was a fair and democratic process that the entire world took notice of. The US administration should respect the free will of the Palestinian people.

People who usually have their premiums collected on a Tuesday or Wednesday won't be getting the CIS person coming round.

State and some federal officials have been consistently denying there are any significant risks from the toxic mud that has spread across the city. The data they themselves have collected show that, to the contrary, there are significant risks from arsenic and toxic chemicals that have blanketed much of New Orleans.

Some of the evidence we collected at the (stabbing) scene did lead up to the trailer where we served the search warrant this afternoon. Fortunately, it ended peacefully.

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.

My poetry changed when I was 15 years old. One of my uncles, Leo, had written poetry when he was a young man, and he took me down to the family business and he opened a safe and showed me some poems he'd written when he was 19. He also gave me a book of the collected poems of Shelley. And I still have that book.

My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.

Matt and I are more intense, Ramin is the calm, collected one, the technical and graphic genius. All of us are entrepreneurial and work great together. We each offer something different and important to the task at hand. We have been able to utilize technology to make a virtual work force - Ramin works and lives in Ottawa.

I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

The amount they've collected is breathtaking, and it shows how scared they are and how much trouble they think they're in. Is this a David and Goliath fight? Yes. But there are lots of Davids out there who are suffering through high drug costs ? and remember, David won.

The amount collected today won't even make a scratch in the amount that is owed.

Most of the computers collected for recycling here in the US end up being shipped illegally to disassembly sites in China and India,

Most everybody who can has been a volunteer somewhere in town for some period of time. Like everybody else, we collected donations immediately after.

You just sit there and watch Ben, he played night and day from last year's playoff time to this year's. Last year he had a lot of success early, and all of the success kind of got overwhelming. He's been more calm and collected this year.

We have successfully collected samples from the comet and we're bringing them home for analysis in laboratories all over the world.

While a good portion of the money collected goes to the custodial parents to help in raising their kids,

We have collected a tremendous amount of data. It's been very successful.

We know that you've got to collect points, ... Kurt (Busch) last year was very consistent and collected the most points. That's everyone's baseline. You go into the final 10, if somebody is on a tear and wins a bunch, everybody is going to have to adjust their game. But going into any series, you want to cover your bases and be solid. . . We'll go to Loudon and get our feet wet. We can spend our first two or three races just feeling things out to see where we need to be.

There are bad apples, as there are in any tax system. What puts this high on the radar screen is that people who don't pay already have collected the money at the point of sale.

The reality of it is, the city of Albuquerque hasn't really collected that much in impact fees.

We called some candidates to relocate signs last week and when they were not moved this past weekend, we removed them. We collected 63 signs from six different candidates. We are not picking on anyone.

We collected the dots, and then we connected the dots.

We collected over 500 signatures in less than a week. We aren't letting this go. If this bill doesn't pass we will support another one like it.

We collected evidence and will take it to our laboratory for testing. It's the apartment that we're focusing on.

We collected about $800 from the football games, and we also had a volleyball game with students playing against the teachers. That raised about $500.

We collected 30 fish from the South River near Annapolis last year. Sixteen fish had raised, pinkish red lesions around the mouth.

When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.

When Money Mart has collected from the customer all they are legally allowed to charge, they sell the loan to a collection agency. Collection agencies are more aggressive in their pursuit of payment and not above calling employers to inform them of the customer's debt woes. This entire process takes money from people who can't afford to lose it, and destroys the credit of those who badly need it.

We knew the data collected after the attack was going to be weak, but I was a little dumbfounded by the fact that the numbers even before the attack were awfully weak, ... Even before the attack, the economy seems to have relapsed into the doldrums.

We've collected tens of thousands of voter signatures. And our polling is strong all across the state.

We've collected evidence. We're anticipating having to defend it.

We've collected $4 million more from January to March over last year. And the number of land parcels has gone up as well. Automobile registration is following the same path. Last year we had roughly 125,000 vehicles and this year we're expecting to have 130,000 vehicles in the county.

There is only so much money collected by the state. That money goes, I guess, into the state's general revenue fund.