Book Collectors Quotes

#1. Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.

Vincent Starrett

#2. Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee's smoke break.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#3. In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback.

Christina Baker Kline

#4. Better a broken promise than none at all.

Mark Twain

#5. Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

Bill Kelly

#6. Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around.

Marty Rubin

#7. We were supposed to be walking forward, but we were actually drifting back into time.

Avijeet Das

#8. My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.

Thomas Hoving

#9. As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

Theo Van Gogh

#10. How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.

Arthur C. Clarke

#11. Love and kindness is the source of courage.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it.

Gelett Burgess

#13. Yo. I'm from Beverly Hills, and I be pimpin'.

Greg Proops

#14. Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

Willis Regier

#15. I just want to work hard, do stuff of the best possible quality and be a great friend.

Suki Waterhouse

#16. As book collectors know all too well: We only regret our economies, never our extravagances.

Michael Dirda

#17. To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.

Leona Rostenberg

#18. If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

Ajahn Chah

#19. And then there was one nonsense phrase he said near constant. Sounded like 'Cat hoodoo fat hag hen!

David Bain

#20. I am obsessed with books.
I am a book collector.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books ...

Vincent Starrett

#22. Comedy strikes here... just to reduce pressure and depression.

Deyth Banger

#23. I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.

Daniel Woodrell

#24. I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the songs that I've taken on and reworked and recorded.

Sam Amidon

#25. Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

Fred Wilson