Top 100 Quotes About Collector
#1. All right. Maybe I can get you one soul. Perhaps a tax collector...'cept they ain't human. Would they work? Or would you need, like, three of them to make up one normal person's soul? -Lift
Brandon Sanderson
#2. I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.
Jack White
#3. I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.
Adam Foulds
#4. I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
Iris Apfel
#5. We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.
Walter Benjamin
#6. I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.
Allan Gurganus
#7. The sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
Marianne Moore
#9. I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.
Leo Fitzpatrick
#10. The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.
Emma Donoghue
#11. To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies
#12. Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.
Josh Homme
#13. Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
J.G. Farrell
#14. I don't mumble anymore, collector.
I'm not a collector anymore, pipsqueak.
Victoria Scott
#15. I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.
Martin Gore
#16. I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
Marcel Duchamp
#17. I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.
Craig McCracken
#19. I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.
Phil Collins
#20. The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Kit Williams
#21. As his dark closet shows, Bluebeard was a collector at heart, and even after dispatching a wife, could not let her fully depart.
Shuli Barzilai
#22. I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.
Henry Rollins
#23. My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
Michael Shanks
#24. I'm a record collector. I've got over 2000 records. It's so nice for me to have records that are me. That's me on there.
Jenny Hoyston
#25. 'Tax Collector' was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS.
Rick Yancey
#26. Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.
Bill Dedman
#27. The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.
Austin Kleon
#28. Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the industrialist and prodigious art collector. It is said that he liked to wander through his gallery at night in quiet contemplation.
Anonymous
#29. In the history of show business, there probably never was a straighter straight man than banana-yellow Bert, the paper clip collector and pigeon fancier.
Michael Davis
#30. I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.
Jesse Williams
#31. Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.
John Baxter
#32. The Doll Collector - A Beck McManus Novel - By Edward Jakubik
Edward Jakubik
#33. Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an 'injustice collector' and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity.
Edmund Bergler
#34. My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
Eli Broad
#35. I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Gary Oldman
#36. I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
Mark Knopfler
#37. Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet or musician, an inventor or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#38. I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.
James Mangold
#40. Ever the collector of treasure maps that promised the world but led nowhere.
Justina Chen
#41. An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
Aldrich Ames
#42. One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a 'collector', what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won't put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away).
Dada Bhagwan
#43. The two Reds crewing the old trash collector are giving us a countdown. When it reaches one, Sevro says, "Tuck your sacks and pop your cloaks." I
Pierce Brown
#44. Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.
Charles Saatchi
#45. The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere collector of numbers.
Stephen Senn
#46. A real collector does not sell.
Eli Broad
#47. The book borrower ... proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures ... as by his failure to read these books.
Walter Benjamin
#48. The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
Walter J. Phillips
#49. Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.
Hilary Mantel
#50. Only if the human mind had a Garbage Collector.
But then, do we know what references we still hold on?
Sapan Saxena
#52. I think that the genes for being an artist and mentally ill aren't just related, they are the same gene, but try telling that to a bill collector. We
Neil Hilborn
#53. I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.
Ellen Datlow
#54. The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.
Josh Turner
#55. I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.
Richard MacDonald
#56. No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.
Tom Felton
#57. He fancies himself as a collector. Really, he is a peasant.
Torquil MacLeod
#59. I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.
Micah Lexier
#60. As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.
Walter Benjamin
#61. Ever word collector sure know that feeling, whether you've been catching songs or poems or stories. You've been caught in the magic. -Florentine
Natalie Lloyd
#62. Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides ... A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.
Augusto De Luca
#63. Everywhere you walk, every place you go is full of art, explicit or hidden! If you can see them, you will be the richest art collector and your memory will be the richest art gallery!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Be a Communist, a stamp collector, or a Ladies' Aid worker if you must, but for heaven's sake, be something.
Majorie Hillis
#65. In the area of field apps, Collector for ArcGIS is great, but where do you go? There's a navigator app. And then what do you do when you get there? There's a workforce app. So all of these apps work hand-in-hand to support field workers.
Jack Dangermond
#66. I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
#67. I'm a big collector of things."
"Am I a thing?"
"No, you're my heart.
Jen Frederick
#68. Clock time is our bank manager, tax collector, police inspector; this inner time is our wife.
Audrey Niffenegger
#69. Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give them the hint that you're a winner so they believe they've made a good investment. It's simple common sense ...
Mark Kostabi
#70. I'm a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It's real escapism, it's like everything's alright. It's like the world is happening now in a far away city. Everything's fine.
Michael Jackson
#71. It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books ...
Vincent Starrett
#72. The passion of the collector when confronted with a rare item, the enthusiasm of a hunter who sees a fine, handsome beast, can give us no idea of the tremendous love of clothes in some women.
Benito Perez Galdos
#73. Karma: The delusion of the pretentious; who think the Universe should act as their debt collector.
Steve Maraboli
#75. He was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I
Tracy Chevalier
#76. The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed as the final thrill, the thrill of acquisition, passes over them.
Benjamin Franklin
#77. The object that was pinning me haplessly to the ground, like a butterfly on a collector's tray, was of twentieth-century origin and of very specific function.
Oh, all right, it was a public lavatory.
Jonathan Stroud
#78. I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play.
Robin Zander
#79. When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.
Larry Gagosian
#80. Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.
Rick Perlstein
#81. God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.
Shane Claiborne
#82. I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize.
John Vanderslice
#83. Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
Dean Koontz
#84. After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
Terry Southern
#85. It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.
Fred Astaire
#86. There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.
Adam Clayton
#88. There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.
Theodore Newton Vail
#89. She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#90. Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory.
Walter Benjamin
#91. I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people.
Frances Winkler
#92. Someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.
Sasa Stanisic
#93. Landlords took the side streets, typically not in their Saab or Audi but in their "rent collector," some oil-leaking, rusted-out van or truck that hauled around extension cords, ladders, maybe a loaded pistol, plumbing snakes, toolboxes, a can of Mace, nail guns, and other necessities.
Matthew Desmond
#94. The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
William, Saroyan
#95. She was a collector of lost souls. The forgotten, the bypassed, the most beautiful at heart. Rimmel saw beauty no one else saw, and even though how she made others feel was amazing, it was nothing compared to the way it made her shine.
Cambria Hebert
#96. As a collector, you will discover that surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul.
Ernest West Basden
#97. I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
Rowan Atkinson
#98. I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.
Michael Gambon
#99. I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
Quentin Tarantino
#100. Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.
Jim Rohn
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