Collectors Quotes

Many tax collectors and sinners came as guests to eat with Jesus — Anonymous

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

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

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art. — Charles Saatchi

Artists ... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors. — Robert Genn

They are people who literally enter books. — Heather Lyons

Collectors Have A Troubling New Way To Get — Anonymous

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. — James Lafferty

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? — Jesus Christ

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. — Lucien Febvre

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. — Cleveland Amory

As book collectors know all too well: We only regret our economies, never our extravagances. — Michael Dirda

I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me. — Robert Barry

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors. — Luis Walter Alvarez

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 fuels. — Jack McDevitt

I threw one box in the recycling bin. I'm going to hell, a hell in which eternity is a Kindle with a dead battery. — Linda Grant

Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant! — Charles Krauthammer

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find. — Robert Mueller

I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves. — Robert Doisneau

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy. — Mitch McConnell

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

It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government. — Cory Booker

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

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with. — David Lee

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. — John Rhys-Davies

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

Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. — Aldous Huxley

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 collectors. — Dan Brown

Collectors are happy people. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't think fashion people know about my work. Some collectors find some of the work too intense. — Katherine Bernhardt

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

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors. — Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future. — Laurie A. Helgoe

It was on the order of coin or stamp collecting; no rational explanation could ever be given. And high prices were being paid by wealthy collectors. — Philip K. Dick

I am not a collector of deserts! — Benito Mussolini

I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work. — Willie Stargell

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art. — Jack White

Artists, curators, collectors: we're all part of a regime. — David Balzer

Don Vicente, a monk of the Convent of Pobla in Aragon, murdered several collectors in order to get their best books; — Harold Rabinowitz

I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies. — Louis Susman

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things. — Rob Brezsny

I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down. — George Strait

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists. — Victor Pinchuk

The world was full of collectors, scouring the earth for pieces of themselves. — Kathleen Tessaro

It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists. — David Galenson

I am obsessed with books.
I am a book collector. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When Clinton said he was going to create 8 million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. — Jay Leno

Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors. — Vincent Starrett

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy. — Howard Hodgkin

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions. — Robert Rauschenberg

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. — Boz Scaggs

I wish Rick would be gang-raped by a bunch of Muslim garbage collectors. — Augusten Burroughs

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general. — Gary Weiss

Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it. — Gelett Burgess

To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books. — Leona Rostenberg

The true collector's only home is his own museum. — Orhan Pamuk

the tax collectors found no more money to collect because there were no more people to pay the tax. — William Stearns Davis