collector Quotes

I sort of collect watches.

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

I've always been a collector at heart.

In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

I'm a huge pin collector.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

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

I've been an avid collector since I was a child.

I love sneakers. My storage room is 75 percent sneakers.

I'm constantly buying records.

I've always been a great collector and lover of cookbooks.

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 collect swords, but I'm not really a swordsman.

As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.

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

I'm not a good collector.

I'm a collector, so I've got all kinds of sunglasses. I'd say I've got about a buck ten, buck twenty.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

I'm someone who loves watches.

I had 45 Avril Lavigne posters. Those were my first posters.

My dad is a huge music and vinyl fan.

I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.

Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.

I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.