Collectors Quote by Lucien Febvre

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

— Haruki Murakami

I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much…

— Sloane Crosley

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

— Oscar Wilde

If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten…

— Tommy Shaw

The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

As a kid, I loved my Matchbox cars, my Big Wheels, and the race cars on TV. When I laid eyes on my first…

— Andy Lally

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

— Douglas Adams

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of…

— Norman Douglas

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Collectors wanted pictures of the items they'd gathered, both to form Catalina of the whole and to record individual favorites.”

— Kim Todd

I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.

— Ben Eine

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…

— Susan Sontag

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort