Collectors Quotes · Page 2

A real collector does not sell.

— Eli Broad

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

— Frank Serpico

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

— Greg Kinnear

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

— David Weinberger

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

— Walter Benjamin

I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors.

— Jonathan Anderson

I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

— Rachael Taylor

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

— John Rhys-Davies

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique...

— Anonymous

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

— George D. Prentice

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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…

— Charles Saatchi

Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you…

— Michelle Singletary

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw…

— Anthony Bourdain

I don't think I'm a collector. I think every kid from where I'm from had a terrible passion for having to have…

— Pusha T

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

— Walter Benjamin

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information…

— Jim Rohn

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously.…

— Anonymous

I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny…

— Anjelica Huston

Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a…

— Arne Glimcher

There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I…

— Jehane Noujaim

I don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things,…

— Peter Lindbergh

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and…

— Kirk Hammett

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He…

— Robert Henri

Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and…

— Willis Regier

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting…

— Jerry Saltz

Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item…

— Rod Serling

SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain,…

— Kate DiCamillo

Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what…

— Lin Yutang

I buy mainly Beatles bootlegs and stuff like that. I'm hoping I can go there today. My dad buys my drawings and…

— Daniel Johnston

“Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private…

— Flora Haines Loughead

Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show…

— Robertson Davies

Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz…

— Miles Davis

Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held…

— John Green

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like…

— Steve Martin

We're big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors.

— Alexander Gilkes

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

— Craig McCracken

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

— Brett Ratner

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte