Top 248 Collector Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.
Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.
I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the
sea;
the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
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 much of a collector anyway.
Don't react with fear and panic in the face of debt collector threats. Talk to them and explain your situation. See if you can work out a compromise.
I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
I don't think I'm a collector. I think every kid from where I'm from had a terrible passion for having to have fresh kicks.
I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.
Who's destined to be the next world star and collector of Ballon d'Or when Cristiano and Messi stop playing? It's the Frenchman Kylian Mbappe, a truly unique player!
God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.
Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.
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.
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
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 have never collected them.
I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.
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.
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 reason at all.
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
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.
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.
When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I have no idea. Let's face it, I'm probably going to recommend artists that I represent.
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.
As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.
What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.
Conservation is key to preserving many of the worlds natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.
Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way. Low expectations reap great rewards.
I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.
I'm a winemaker and a wine collector, so I usually just drink wine.
I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize.
It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.
If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.
There's something fascinating about record collector minds, hoards of quotes shared and dealt like cards, lines traded, images bought.
eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.
Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
I'm a collector of carvings. I love old, wooden, grotesque Gothic pieces, anything that has cherubs on it, satyrs and carved angels.
I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
