Collector Quotes
104 quotes by 98 authors
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
— Rowan Atkinson
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
— Walter Benjamin
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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
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A real collector does not sell.
— Eli Broad
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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
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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
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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
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I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.
— Mads Mikkelsen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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... 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
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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
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Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
— J. G. Farrell
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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
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Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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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
Who Wrote These Collector Quotes
98 authors contributed a total of 104 Collector Quotes, led by these top contributors: