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To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata. — David Weinberger

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector. — Michael Shanks

My mum is a big collector of art. — Agnes Obel

I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play. — Robin Zander

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector. — Bill Dedman

In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer. — H. Norman Wright

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess. — Josh Homme

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments. — Rick Perlstein

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. — Douglas Coupland

Be a Communist, a stamp collector, or a Ladies' Aid worker if you must, but for heaven's sake, be something. — Majorie Hillis

Clock time is our bank manager, tax collector, police inspector; this inner time is our wife. — Audrey Niffenegger

I'm a huge poster collector. — Illeana Douglas

I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left. — Jessica Fortunato

People change when shit happens. — Victoria Scott

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector — Frank Serpico

He fancies himself as a collector. Really, he is a peasant. — Torquil MacLeod

Like a firework, a person's life flashed brightest right before expiration. — Katherine McIntyre

The two Reds crewing the old trash collector are giving us a countdown. When it reaches one, Sevro says, "Tuck your sacks and pop your cloaks." I — Pierce Brown

I have a three-piece suit. I'm an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I'm probably the killer. — Mads Mikkelsen

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector. — Terry Southern

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it. — Marcel Duchamp

I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition. — Jourdan Dunn

Ever word collector sure know that feeling, whether you've been catching songs or poems or stories. You've been caught in the magic. -Florentine — Natalie Lloyd

The sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. — Marianne Moore

The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him. — William, Saroyan

Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved. — J.G. Farrell

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. — Anthony Bourdain

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. — Jim Rohn

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls ... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. — Alice Neel

Every collector is potentially (if not actually) a thief. — Susan Sontag

I'm a big collector of things."
"Am I a thing?"
"No, you're my heart. — Jen Frederick

I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear. — Iris Apfel

as old as we may be in flesh, we are always young in the bone — Jeffery Deaver

I'm not a collector. — Hayao Miyazaki

Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don't like where your story is headin', you fight your fate with everything you have. — Jessica Fortunato

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. — Mark Twain

Someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings. — Sasa Stanisic

Her wavy hair falls to mid-waist, and I think how she looks better this way. From the back. — Victoria Scott

I am a big book collector. I love books. — Andrew Zuckerman

I used to be a huge collector, and my big thing was stickers. — Jenny Lewis

I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon. — Victoria Scott

I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize. — John Vanderslice

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. — Susan Sontag

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls. — Dean Koontz

As his dark closet shows, Bluebeard was a collector at heart, and even after dispatching a wife, could not let her fully depart. — Shuli Barzilai

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in. — Dasha Zhukova

Speak up, Charlie," I say. "If you have something to say, then say it out loud. — Victoria Scott

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person. — Tom Felton

I am not a collector of deserts! — Benito Mussolini

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family. — Jessica Fortunato

It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books ... — Vincent Starrett

Her soul is clear of any red seals, but that won't last long, ' cause Papa's come to play. — Victoria Scott

Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas's best friend. — Jessica Fortunato

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. — Jeff Jordan

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all. — George Bernard Shaw

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'. — Larry Wall

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation. — Robert Mapplethorpe

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. — Leo Fitzpatrick

I'm a record collector. I've got over 2000 records. It's so nice for me to have records that are me. That's me on there. — Jenny Hoyston

Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book. — John Baxter

I'm a person who can take on the guises of people I meet. I'm a collector, and I collect personalities and ideas. — David Bowie

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars. — Mark Knopfler

A real collector does not sell. — Eli Broad

Passion is curiously exclusive and the need for it irresistible, while promiscuity is passionless--a mere collector's obsession. — John Peter Nettl

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility. — Mary McCarthy

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend. — Walter Benjamin

It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor. — Julia Child

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too. — Jason Mewes

I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins. — Patrick Rothfuss

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique ... — Bob Dylan

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. — Edward Hallett Carr

I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are. — Ellen Datlow

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. — Bill Vaughan

named for a man who became a saint but worked as a tax collector. — Matthew Minicucci

It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me. — John Fowles

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector. — Walter Benjamin

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. — Robertson Davies

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item. — Isaac Marion

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. — Walter J. Phillips

Be a positive evidence collector — Karen Salmansohn

I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time. — Rachael Taylor

I'm beginning to realise that I'm either overly sentimental, or am a hoarder who struggles to part with things. In all honesty, I'm probably both. — Fennel Hudson

He was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I — Tracy Chevalier

A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story, not by the collector. — Karen Jones Gowen

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations. — Laura Furman

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. — Tom Wolfe

I am the collector of the past. — Ashley Newell

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl. — Lily Allen

Karma: The delusion of the pretentious; who think the Universe should act as their debt collector. — Steve Maraboli

I think that the genes for being an artist and mentally ill aren't just related, they are the same gene, but try telling that to a bill collector. We — Neil Hilborn

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

I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you. — Jessica Fortunato

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector — Augustine Birrell

Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory. — Walter Benjamin

I don't mumble anymore, collector.
I'm not a collector anymore, pipsqueak. — Victoria Scott

I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid. — J. August Richards

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. — Edward G. Robinson

I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul. — Sonia Sanchez