While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.
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.
I don't think I'm a collector. I think every kid from where I'm from had a terrible passion for having to have fresh kicks.
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector
I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.
Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.
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.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.
To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.
A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success. ' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?
Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
I'm in a comic book fan. I have long boxes at home. I'm a comic book collector; I'm not joking. It's just the coolest thing ever.
Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.
I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!
The vast majority of artists worldwide are unrepresented, disenfranchised or otherwise don't have an opportunity to sell or have their work shown. Giving those artists access to the collector community, expanding the collector community and giving artists a chance to be discovered is the goal of iStockphoto.
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.