Top 50 Collectors Quotes

I don’t like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they’re not very good scientists. They’re more like stamp collectors.

The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.

It’s a little hard to go out there and spend your money on a home, car, or goods and services if your wages are being garnished to make debt collectors rich.

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

I’m not one of those crazy collectors – I don’t have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we’re on the road and I’m wearing a nice suit.

One winter, I went to Erfoud to research trilobites and got to know the quarries, the dealers, and the remote mining villages. They are not easy places to visit, and this was a completely unknown corner of the world economy: children slaving away on desert cliffs to furnish wealthy collectors in San Francisco.

Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories.

Some collectors do but no, I don’t look at watches as an investment.

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors… But I think they’re quite positive when they’re dynamic and do something new.

The itinerary of most antiquities from their source – tomb, temple, quarry – to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.

The Chinese countryside has become a slave labour camp and dumping ground for every imaginable pollutant. The rural peasantry is being sucked dry by corrupt government tax collectors.

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

When it all started, record companies – and there were many of them, and this was a good thing – were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music… Now, record companies are run by lawyers and accountants.

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

In reality, it is the waste collectors, the nurses, and the cleaners whose shoulders are supporting the apex of the pyramid. They are the true mechanism of social solidarity.

Debt collectors should not be able to call, email, or text you to the point of harassment.

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

The only people I don’t answer are bill collectors.

My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines.

During the struggles, the one thing I remember was the continued support from my wife. I was running up phone bills and did all kinds of things to begin the process. When times were bad we bought food with credit cards. We had bill collectors calling. We maneuvered through this together.

If you’re doing something like scheduling utility payments to come through your debit card or out of your personal checking account, that’s perfectly fine. But there are much safer ways to handle situations with debt collectors. You can send a money order overnight, or wire the cash to them.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

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

New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures – from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

I come from a family of compulsive collectors, and my first memories are really all about collecting. I remember visiting flea markets with my mother or my grandmother – she goes to local ones around Varese, Italy, every Sunday when she’s at home.

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

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

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

But we all have experiences of having a truly good time after watching a movie that is not thought-provoking, don’t we? I do too and I’ve been wishing to do that kind of movie. I think ‘Collectors’ is exactly that.

Collections collect collectors. It doesn’t work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.

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

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we’re going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

San Francisco has always been a great city for art collectors.

As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors.

Most collectors I know don’t think of art as a business or as an investment.

I’ve seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone’s account once they gained access.

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

There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.

If you’re trying to learn how to collect art, the key is getting access to insider opinions, and we pride ourselves on working with the most relevant artists and the collectors with the most authoritative voices.

We’re big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors.

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it’s not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one.

Then I began filming a world that I knew quite a bit about. I was peripherally involved in that world much of my life – the exotic reptile world, the collectors, the dealers, the smugglers.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.

You have to be a little bit cautious when the market gets quite strong because there’s a tendency to anoint a genius artist every other day. That would be a word of advice for the collectors out there.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

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.

In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback.

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.