“There are lots of ways to design a workflow - for instance, some land surveyors book their notes by hand, and some use electronic data collectors. Every firm has its own unique way of arriving at the end product. However, from a licensed land surveyor, the product should always be of the same high quality.” WayShouldBookEndsUseHandsQualityLandDesignProductsUniqueNotesInstanceDataFirmCollectorsArrivingHigh QualitySurveyorsLand Surveyor Author:Mark Mason
“We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.” BookFactsBeliefPreservesCollectors Author:Walter Benjamin
“I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.” ScientistVery GoodBad ThingsStampsCollectors Author:Luis Walter Alvarez
“I buy mainly Beatles bootlegs and stuff like that. I'm hoping I can go there today. My dad buys my drawings and he re-sells them for quite a bit more and then he puts the money in my savings. I just draw all the time and he buys and I get a lot money [laughs]. It's great. My dad's my best manager I ever had. If I get richer, I'd like to be able to buy more of the real collectible Beatles things. I just need a little more money to be a higher class collector [laughs].” IfsNeedsLittlesI CanRealTodayAbleStuffBitsClassLaughingDadHigherDrawsSellsMy DadDrawingSavingManagersMore MoneySavingsGet RichCollectorsBest ManagerCollectibles Author:Daniel Johnston
“Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.” IfsHeartI CanPlayRememberCoursesBandSafeSpreadYesterdayExcitementCollectionsBedroomCollectingCollectorsCigarHeart Pounding Author:Edward G. Robinson
“[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.” HumansDesireLanguageInformationStudentsBehaviourGoogleCollectorsHuman KnowledgeVaults Author:Steven Levy
“I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.” WorldCharacterStoriesHumanityFoundReligiousAnimalHeroEvidenceMythSavedFloodCollectorsApocalypticArk Author:Russell Crowe
“I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.” IfsBookDifferentWould BeArtistMy OwnQuietYeahWho I AmPerformersMy Own LifeCollectorsShopkeepers Author:Mos Def
“I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize.” PeopleEasyEquipmentCollectors Author:John Vanderslice
“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.” EasyWork OutCollectorsPossessive Author:Robert Barry
“The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the collectors get possessive about it and don't want to let something happen. Say you get full credit, you know. You give them your name, the catalog and it always enhances the value of the piece, you know, the more shows it is in, blah, blah, blah.” IfsKnowsWantGivingSometimesShowsProblemHappensValuesAsksNamesPiecesGroupsCreditThings HappenCollectorsPossessiveBlah Author:Robert Barry
“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.” UsePresidentKingsRepublicanTaxesDemocratPriestsBusinessmanCollectors Author:Shane Claiborne
“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.” YeahInstrumentsGuitarCollectorsVintage Author:John Petrucci
“Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.” MindMeanLongArtRealArtistValuesTermArt IsMarketingLong TermCollectorsTrendy Author:Oliver $
“Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.” IfsWritingAsksForeverOffersDebtStatementsCollectorsLumpsPayoff Author:Michelle Singletary
“Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.” YearsWellsTwoTenTaxesOrdinaryRedArmyPropertyIncludingSoldierBarsOfficialsBelongingUniformsCoatsFilesCommandersBlanketChairmanCollectorsCottonCollarsMaoLandlordRed Army Author:Edgar Snow
“I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively.” ThinkingArtistAnswersPositivelyCollectors Author:Patrick Seguin
“For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.” FeelsYearsArtDifficultPaintingPaintPainterCollectorsDominating Author:Domenico Gnoli
“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.” ThinkingKidsPassionTerribleKicksCollectors Author:Pusha T
“Instagram has been around for what, maybe a couple of years? Already it has shut down some small blogs - it's a collector of others and those most followed. It's already a selection. I imagine this further selection will take place in the next two years. It's going to be very fast.” YearsHas BeensTwoNextImagineCoupleTwo YearsSelectionBlogsInstagramCollectors Author:Franca Sozzani
“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.” BookPassionMy FamilyPlantBikeCollectorsAvid Author:Bill Walton
“I'm in a comic book fan. I have long boxes at home. I'm a comic book collector; I'm not joking. It's just the coolest thing ever.” LongBookHomeFansBoxesComicComic BookCollectors Author:Tim Rozon
“I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.” SellsFinanceCurvesCollectorsLearning Curve Author:William Gibson
“I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.” BelieveHas BeensBookRealInterestDon't BelieveCollectorsNostalgicVinyl Author:Art Spiegelman
“I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.” IfsHas BeensMadeChurchCitiesTaxesDecidedPropertySuitsTaxationCollectorsAssessmentBaltimoreColossalRectify Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.” ThinkingArtGuyComputerMassiveFreakCollectors Author:Pharrell Williams
“Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!” WayProblemNumbersTaxesApproachDoctorsIncreaseBrilliantHealthcareCollectorsDecrease Author:Charles Krauthammer
“It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.” Has BeensArtFoundCommonGlassesFinestCollectorsCommon Knowledge Author:James Lafferty
“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.” ReasonCarHabitExpensiveNonsenseNo ReasonWealthyCollectors Author:John Lydon
“Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.” IfsBookNightHouseWinterShelvesCollectorsRainyWinter NightOsmosis Author:Hilary Mantel
“I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.” ThinkingKnowsMotivationalArtistMotivationCollectors Author:Robert Mapplethorpe
“I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.” Would BeFacesImagineGuitarPlasticItemsCollectorsFetch Author:Gary Oldman
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.” PassionMemoriesChaosBordersLittle ThingsChaoticCollectors Book:Selected Writings: 1927-1934 Source: Selected Writings: 1927-1934
“I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.” BookLibraryPassingPassingsConsumersThese DaysCollectorsQualmsQualms AboutPassing It Author:Rick Riordan
“A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.” KindArtHomeThreeHouseSecretObjectsTheoryWallDecadesMuseumsUnitsGalleryCollectorsOne WomanAnd OffSecret LifeStorageAuctionsCsiSaboteurs Author:Jerry Saltz
“I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.” FeelsShowsArtistEnergyPayMonthsBalanceBillsAddCriticsSizePalacesCollectorsYellingPlumberCurator Author:Jerry Saltz
“My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.” HandsWantedMotherAmbitionClothesCollectorsWorking Women Author:Stephen Sondheim
“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. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.” WritingTryingBigsFilmSongFightingActorsHouseRoomsRecordsPiecesHugeAlbumsMovieCollectionsLayersCollectorsSoundtracksVinyl Author:Quentin Tarantino
“The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.” CasesFansSonKnivesItemsCollectorsFranklinWadeMintHamptonsOldest Son Author:Josh Turner
“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.” FunnyPoliticalDifferencesMoneyLibertyEconomicTaxesSkinsLibertarianTaxationCollectorsIncome TaxFunny MoneyTax DayTaxes FunnyFederal Taxes Author:Mark Twain
“The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.” PeoplePoorPovertyTaxesCreatingPoor PeopleTaxationCollectorsFederal Taxes Author:Bill Vaughan
“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.” YearsMy OwnNumbersPiecesCollectors Author:Tom Wolfe
“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.” YearsWantedChildhoodSeriousDrawsFormerComicNerdCollectors Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.” FirstsLastsSufferingJesusCausesPromiseTaxesMessagesFinalsFulfillmentEverlastingAllegianceMuhammadCollectorsOutcastTrue GodLeperEverlasting Life Author:John Green
“When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them.” KnowsMenWorldArtAgeTodayGrowsLosesSilenceVisionConditionsActivityGainsRootsLonelyCriticsDrivenGoldenThis LifePocketsConsumptionVentureGalleryNo MoneyCollectorsGolden AgeNothing To Lose Author:Mark Rothko
“The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.” BeautifulSufferingPowerfulCitiesFeetHugeBrokenHollywoodBarsValleysCurrencyGarbagePatheticCliffsDollsHerdsCollectorsMaidsHumiliatedHostessesLemmings Author:Salman Rushdie