Mugdha Collections Quotes

I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true. ~ Brian Evenson

All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections. ~ Dries Van Noten

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess. ~ Lorrie Moore

Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates ~ Gautama Buddha

I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music. ~ Oliver Sim

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis. ~ Bill Jay

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience. ~ Scotty Cameron

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections. ~ Eva Herzigova

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases. ~ Christina Stead

Always my collections are made of different influences. ~ Jean Paul Gaultier

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense. ~ Lilly Pulitzer

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. ~ Mikhail Tal

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

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources ~ Henry Mintzberg

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. ~ David Sedaris

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls. ~ Emma Watson

What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress ... There's a lot of tribalism in the collections, ~ Alexander McQueen

My main intention was to not only create collections that defined myself and style, but to also create things that my fans identify with me and feel a belonging to. ~ Ashley Purdy

I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials. ~ Laetitia Casta

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal. ~ James Wolcott

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners ~ Isaac D'Israeli

I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012) ~ Adam Savage

My collections are a reflection of my personal style and interests. All the textiles, fabrics and patterns are of my personal choice. ~ Ashley Purdy

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me. ~ Brian Greene

My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work. ~ George Saunders

The wisdom in publishing is that short-story collections don't sell. All too often short-story collections are viewed as vanity projects or are published by small presses, are not seen as real in the way that novels are real. Still, for me, the short stories are the places where I get to fly, to experiment, to play. I ~ Neil Gaiman

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history. ~ Thomas P. Campbell

The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind. ~ Herbert Hoover

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life. ~ Michael Ignatieff

Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking. ~ Sean M. Carroll

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year. ~ Beck

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections. ~ Paul Nurse

collections and omnibuses (a book that contains ~ ReadList

I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends. ~ Riz Ahmed

There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei. They just go on forever. They're plasma, they're fluid ... they're alive. ~ Frederick Lenz

Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would argue - it's because our "voicier" writers hew so closely to one given set of dictional tics that we as readers can't read the books all the way through in a single sitting, because if we did, the stories and their narrators would all start to bleed together. ~ Roy Kesey

It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections ~ Paul Johnson

When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc. ~ Lisa Gardner

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners. ~ Marie Kondo

[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God). ~ John Wansbrough

I first read [Wendell Berry] short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town. ~ Nick Offerman

Is the murk which lives inside me,
actually a dead star? ~ Sameer Khan

A collection of books is the best of all universities. ~ Thomas Carlyle

The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents. ~ Larry Page

Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination. ~ Jim Morrison

There will never be a chanel collection without black ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets. ~ Andy Stanley

History: a collection of epitaphs. ~ Elbert Hubbard

[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.) ~ John Ringo

I don't do heroin myself, but it's done wonders for my music collection. ~ Bill Maher

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ~ Charles Lamb

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you. ~ Rei Kawakubo

Perfection is a polished collection of errors. ~ Mario Benedetti

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Our bodies are these collections of appetites that veer out of control and habits that drag us down paths we don't want to travel. ~ John Ortberg

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value. ~ Steve Ballmer

Shall I add a man to my collection? ~ Patricia A. McKillip

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.' ~ Hillary Clinton

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day ~ Amy Winehouse

I never refused autograph seekers, unless they were old enough to look like collection agents. ~ Joe Pepitone

Today, you can view the collections of many art galleries and museums from around the world, including Te Papa, on the internet. ~ Isaac Du Toit

Sometimes I'd go to his house. If I had some cool cards in my pack of Iceberg Updates, we'd compare collections, maybe swap a few. ~ China Mieville

In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of human beings ~ Daisaku Ikeda

Life is but a collection of habits. ~ Ida Tarbell

It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind. ~ Marcel Proust

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God. ~ John Piper

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. ~ John Sladek

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. ~ Roy Kesey

Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection. ~ Lydia Davis

That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters. ~ Michael Callahan

Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Heroin may be bad, but it sure as hell hasn't hurt my CD collection. ~ Bill Maher

A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead! ~ Sigmund Freud

I am a collection of dismantled almosts. ~ Anne Sexton

Of course I took something from the [Glee set]. I took my entire shoe collection, that's all I would ever need. ~ Alex Newell

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. ~ Helen Dunmore

I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It's ever so bourgeois to have two. ~ Libba Bray

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes. ~ Carol Mann

I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity. ~ Arthur Bradford

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. ~ William Boyd

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter. ~ Chita Rivera

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections. ~ Peter Hammill

God is found in the collection of Many ... rather than in the One. ~ Dan Brown

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings. ~ Alexandra Adornetto

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

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope. ~ Neal Shusterman

Cincinnati has one of the most diverse animal collections in the world, with more than 500 species represented. They also have a really good insect exhibit. ~ Newt Gingrich

The war drops its question mark. Memos are distributed. The collections must be protected. A small cadre of couriers has begun moving things to country estates. Locks and keys are in greater demand than ever. ~ Anthony Doerr

Success is a collection of problems solved. ~ I.M. Pei

He has read enough to know there are no collections where each story is perfect. Some hits. Some misses. If you're lucky, a standout. And in the end, people only really remember the standouts anyway, ~ Gabrielle Zevin

What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories? ~ S.J. Watson

Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role. ~ Domenico Dolce

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom. ~ Jane Garmey

Hey! Who stole my collection of used bandages?! And they also got away with my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine! ~ George Carlin

Love is a collection of moments where you were really there with somebody. A child, a lover, a friend, yourself. ~ Frazey Ford

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure. ~ John Galliano