Top 90 Collector Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Collector Quotes from famous people such as Henry Rollins, Isaac Marion, Rick Riordan, Marty Stuart, Bill Vaughan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck a

I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time – or at least in their parents’ basement – but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.
Henry Rollins
Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector’s item.
Isaac Marion
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.
Rick Riordan
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Henry Rollins
I’ve always been a collector at heart.
Marty Stuart
The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
Bill Vaughan
I’m an avid collector of toys. I got everything. Name it. From the Easy Bake Oven to Barbies to every TV show doll, racing cars… I’ve been collecting since I was a little kid.
Biz Markie
I’m a huge pin collector.
Brian Tyree Henry
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain
The willed recovery of what’s been lost – often forcibly, I suppose – is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found myself a poet and a collector and now a curator: to save what we didn’t even know needed saving.
Kevin Young
I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I’m a huge collector of memorabilia. I’ve got Davy Crockett’s bullet pouch. I’ve got Colonel Travis’s belt.
Phil Collins
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn’t become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
Eli Broad
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.
Michael Gambon
I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I’m rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.
Ellen Datlow
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.
Kit Williams
My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn’t owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the Internet and found this was extremely common.
Jake Halpern
Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
Joe Shuster
I’ve been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
Brett Ratner
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin
Conservation is key to preserving many of the world’s natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
I’m at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I’ve given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I’m not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it’s kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
Wale
Who’s destined to be the next world star and collector of Ballon d’Or when Cristiano and Messi stop playing? It’s the Frenchman Kylian Mbappe, a truly unique player!
Giorgio Chiellini
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.
Sylvia Plath
I don’t have huge bank accounts. I’d love one. But it wouldn’t change much. 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.
John Lydon
Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.
Bill Dedman
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
Terry Southern
I’m a collector of designer backpacks.
Andre Iguodala
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector’s zeal.
Edward G. Robinson
Growing up, I didn’t know anyone that was a watch collector or into watches, but I was always kind of curious about them. Before the NBA Draft, I knew I was going to get drafted, and I wanted to commemorate that by buying a watch.
J. J. Redick
I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
Mike Shinoda
In the area of field apps, Collector for ArcGIS is great, but where do you go? There’s a navigator app. And then what do you do when you get there? There’s a workforce app. So all of these apps work hand-in-hand to support field workers.
Jack Dangermond
No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of per

No, I don’t suppose I’m so much a collector sort of person.
Tom Felton
eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.
Jeff Jordan
Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.
Lisa Frank
I’ve been an avid collector since I was a child.
Alessandro Michele
I was an avid collector of Elvis’ early stuff; for a young singer, he was an absolute inspiration. I soaked up what he did like blotting paper. It’s the same as being in school – you learn by copying the maestro.
Ian Gillan
I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn’t a conscious thing. I didn’t consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.
Martin Gore
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn’t quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.
Lev Grossman
I am a collector of jewels, old jewels.
Alessandro Michele
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.
Stephen Sondheim
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I’m not a collector. I don’t like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
Rowan Atkinson
What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.
James Caan
I was brought up in a way that was based purely on the senses. Everything in my upbringing was a reaction to growing up on an organic farm or to the emotions of animal cruelty, as well as the visuals of my mum’s and my father’s art – he was also an art collector.
Stella McCartney
I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.
Bryan Batt
I’m a big toy collector. I’ve been slowing down because my money’s been tight, but I collect toys, too.
Jason Mewes
I’m fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I’m a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
Marianne Wiggins
I’m a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition.
Jourdan Dunn
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.
Hilary Mantel
My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
Michael Shanks
I’m not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
Mark Knopfler
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
Enda Kenny
My dad occupied a government position, deputy collector, in a city called Nainital, so we had access to the cinemas at any time. I saw my first movies when I was very young.
Naseeruddin Shah
My boyfriend has always been a collector of art. He once rang up Paul Kenton and asked him to paint a New York skyline for me. He did, and it is the first painting that has ever been painted just for me.
Amy Macdonald
I’m as passionate as any car owner or car collector that has one car or 300 cars.
Bill Goldberg
There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what’s new.
Adam Clayton
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.
Olafur Eliasson
There’s something fascinating about record collector minds, hoards of quotes shared and dealt like cards, lines traded, images bought.
Lynne Ramsay
Along with my dad, my mother’s pretty high up there. She’s a star! Her interests are so diverse – she’s an art collector and a sports enthusiast.
Roshni Nadar
Art Collector, I think he’s a very good horse.
Bob Baffert
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
Aldrich Ames
I’ve always been a great collector and lover of cookbooks.
Alex Guarnaschelli
A real collector does not sell.

A real collector does not sell.
Eli Broad