Collectors Quotes - Page 12

• The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.

  Emma Donoghue

  Jobs, Children, Book

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About 'Room'". The New Yorker Chat, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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• but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few

  Laird Barron

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Offering, Hands, Church

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• Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

  Willis Regier

  War, Book, Men

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• Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to be a lover of songs, a listener of songs and a collector of songs. If you hear a song in a club that knocks you out or you hear an old recording of a great song you never knew existed, it does not diminish you to record it; it actually exalts you because you have brought a great song from obscurity to the ear of the public.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Writing, Advice

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• 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.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Egypt, Volunteer, Community

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• Nothing means anything here. When they pull down an outstanding building, no one objects. Oh, maybe there's a wee protest from some collectors or something who take a picture of it before it vanishes.

  Billy Connolly

  Mean, America, Building

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• repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the
  sea;
  the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

  Marianne Moore

  Sea, Looks, Return

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.49, Penguin

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• Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

  Ransom Riggs

  Girl, Baby, War

  "9 Creepy Photos That Appear In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’" by Ransom Riggs, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dark, Owl, Doe

  Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (1968). “Illuminations”, Schocken Books Incorporated

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• I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

  Robert Doisneau

  Hate, I Hate

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• It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Literature, Way, Folly

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• 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

  Book, Winter, Night

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• I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people about their weirdest dreams and the strangest, most inexplicable experiences they've had. All this information whirls around in my mind, and new dreams emerge that form the seeds of stories and novels.

  Storm Constantine

  Dream, People, Mind

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• I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Sneakers, Limited Edition

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• 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.

  Mark Teixeira

  Crazy, Nice, Watches

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• Conservation is key to preserving many of the worlds natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Keys, World, Helping

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• I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Book, Kids

  "Anthony Bourdain swears he's a nerdy fanboy". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. June 28, 2012.

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