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It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the… — Hunter S. Thompson
Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii… — Jim Butcher
Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps… — Obert Skye
We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The… — Jim Thompson
I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax… — Dan Brown
I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My… — Derek Landy
SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green… — Kate DiCamillo
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads… — Anais Nin
If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people.… — Shane Claiborne
And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked;… — Gavin Douglas
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. — Edward Hallett Carr
Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of our… — Neal A. Maxwell
A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them… — Paul Mellon
Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark. — Judith Miller
There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer… — Jehane Noujaim
If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the great… — Theaster Gates
My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies. — Louis Susman
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who… — David Crosby
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil… — Jack McDevitt
I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. — John Rhys-Davies
I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work. — Willie Stargell
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? — Jesus Christ
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest… — James Wolcott
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy… — Charles Saatchi

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