Best Collectors Thoughts
178 Collectors quotes by 157 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
— Edward Hallett Carr
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
— Louis Susman
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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
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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
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I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.
— John Rhys-Davies
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I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.
— Willie Stargell
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For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
— Jesus Christ
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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
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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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