#collectors

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#drink #make #miss #shoot #strong

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

— James Lafferty

#been #collectors #common #common knowledge #finest

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#already #among #attack #britain #collectors

I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#been #believe #books #collectors #i

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything! ↗

— Ron Wood

#art #being #came #collectors #everything

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

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

I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#collectors #correspondence #distributor #get #go

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

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#been #collection #collectors #demands #energy