#collector

It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me. ↗

— John Fowles

#the-collector #men

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#causes #collector #cupboard #evaporate #good

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#drink #make #miss #shoot #strong

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

#archaeology #collector #earliest #example #finding

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. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#bad #collected #collector #great #i

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

— Joshua Homme

#exclusively #gotten #guess #i #point

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

#both #collecting #collector #delight #early

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

#celebrity #clothes #collector #designed #hands

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector. ↗

— Terry Southern

#after #also #collector #i #started

People change when shit happens. ↗

— Victoria Scott

#the-collector #victoria-scott #change