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“We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.”

Ifs Strong Ability Talking Design Building Constitution Collections Collectors Interior Design Orderly

Author:Albert Hadley

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

Thinking Said Jobs Millions Taxes Clinton Collectors New Job

Author:Jay Leno

“To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.”

Dust Collectors Metadata

Book:Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Source: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

“The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.”

Mind Artist Differences Collectors

Book:Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.”

Soul My Soul Meat Collectors

Author:Sonia Sanchez

“I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.”

Character Toys Geek Collectors

Author:Craig McCracken

“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.”

Past Passion Photographer Linked Animated Collectors

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.”

Art Collecting Obsessive Collectors

Author:Eli Broad

“A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.”

Facts History Mere Collectors Matchboxes

Author:Lucien Febvre

“To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.”

Book Shelves Collectors True Freedom

Book:Gesammelte Schriften

Source: Gesammelte Schriften

“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.”

Years Home Lasts Pleasure Knowing New York Thousand Built Thousand Years Collectors Chariots New Home

Author:Kit Williams

“Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.”

Items Priceless Collectors

Author:Isaac Marion

“Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.”

Economy Republican Taxes Collectors Obama Economy

Author:Mitch McConnell

“I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.”

Difficult Car Gun Stores Expensive Stamps Obsessive Collectors

Author:Michael Gambon

“When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!”

Firsts Art Music Taken Fans Stones Collectors Music Fans

Author:Ronnie Wood

“An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.”

People Needs Heart Artist Church Poor Alive Example Winter Warm Noble Ministers Impressive Graphic Collectors Warm Heart

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.”

“Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.”

Source: Rendezvous with destiny

“My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.”

Trying Father Black Uncles Lungs Zeal Collectors

Author:Edward G. Robinson

“Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.”

Mind Soul Might Waiting Behinds Doors Thieves Collectors Closed Doors

Book:The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

“I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.”

Thinking World Information Agents Around The World Collectors

Author:Robert Mueller

“I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.”

Desire Guitar Collectors

Author:Mark Knopfler

“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.”

Thinking Has Beens Artist Energy Felt Too Much Demand Illness Collections Collectors

Author:Howard Hodgkin

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

Wells Use Memories Hey Garbage Collectors Closure

Author:Larry Wall

“Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, 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.”

Ifs Needs Soul Politics Given Sleep Pay Lord Praying Taxes Lays Driven Destroyed My Soul I Pray Collectors Abracadabra

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.”

Ifs World Littles Doe Ideas Character Forget Responsibility Too Much Personal Responsibility Collectors

Author:Theodore Newton Vail

“No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.”

Persons Collectors

Author:Tom Felton

“He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.”

Firsts Rate Wit Occasions Collectors Composure All Occasions

Author:George D. Prentice

“I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.”

Writing Today Garbage Collectors Detest

Book:The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back

Source: The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back

“The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.”

Facts Walks Instinct Appreciation Prize Acquisition Collectors Blinders

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.”

Government Moving Father Son Walking Sorrow Husband Mountain Taxes Died Down And Graves My Husband Valleys Disciple Tigers Hunters Taxation Weeping Collectors Bad Government Only Son

Author:Lin Yutang

“Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.”

“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.”

Bigs House Rooms Records Huge Albums Collections Collectors Soundtracks Vinyl

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.”

Book Prove Treasure Borrowed Collectors Fervor Borrowers

Author:Walter Benjamin

“No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.”

Shows Doubt Praise Seeking Treasure Bored No Doubt Resurrection Millionaire Collectors Showing Off Connoisseur

Book:First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth

Source: First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth

“I'm a huge poster collector.”

Huge Collectors Posters

Author:Illeana Douglas

“I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Art Directors Lists Museums Collectors

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“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.”

Trying Country Reality Towns Bills Track Lawyer Exes Collectors

Author:George Strait

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