Collectors Quotes
178 quotes by 158 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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This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is against the individual.…
— Rajneesh
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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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This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming collectors of antiques…
— Pope Francis
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Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must…
— Hans F. Sennholz
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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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Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery,…
— Lenny Kaye
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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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Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives…
— Peter Medawar
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My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
— Boz Scaggs
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The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media…
— Frances O'Grady
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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
Who Wrote These Collectors Quotes
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