#collector

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#collector #faces #fetch #guitar #had

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

I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people. ↗

— Frances Winkler

#brains #collectors #people #stuff #art

Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#order #tension #life

Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors. ↗

— Vincent Starrett

#men

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. ↗

— James Wolcott

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

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

#being #collector #does #garbage #honestly

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#about #admirers #basis #between #collectors

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

— Robert Mueller

#around #best #collectors #find #i

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. ↗

— Mark Twain

#collector #difference #only #skin #takes