Best Collectors Lines
178 Collectors quotes by 157 unique authors
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It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
— James Lafferty
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I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no…
— John Lydon
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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…
— Hilary Mantel
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I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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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…
— Gary Oldman
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I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't…
— Rick Riordan
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The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
— Henry Rollins
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A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life…
— Jerry Saltz
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I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the…
— Jerry Saltz
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I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
— Mike Shinoda
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My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition…
— Stephen Sondheim
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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.…
— Quentin Tarantino
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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…
— Josh Turner
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
— Mark Twain
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The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
— Bill Vaughan
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I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I…
— Tom Wolfe
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New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that…
— John Green
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When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,…
— Mark Rothko
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The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued…
— Salman Rushdie
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For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone…
— Aldous Huxley
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Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and…
— Paulo Coelho
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She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique...
— Bob Dylan
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Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.…
— Diane Setterfield
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The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The…
— Paul Rand
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