Collector Quotes

104 quotes by 98 authors

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. — Anthony Bourdain
A real collector does not sell. — Eli Broad
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… — Eli Broad
I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly. — William Stafford
While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands. — Ibn Arabi
I have a three-piece suit. Iâ€™m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So Iâ€™m probably the killer. — Mads Mikkelsen
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
I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say… — Ian Harvie
Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings,… — Robertson Davies
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… — Charles Saatchi
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is… — Sylvia Plath
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that… — Errico Malatesta
... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that sounded… — Nick Gravenites
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all. — George Bernard Shaw
Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved. — J. G. Farrell
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the… — Peter Medawar
Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: itâ€™s for life. — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap,… — Ted Trueblood

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