Hamish Bowles Quotes

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

I'm a hoarder.

Collection is an addiction.

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

I'm addicted to the deal, to the next thing. It's irresistible.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

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.

I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.

There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.

I'm constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

I have a bag and shoe addiction. If I were a doctor or a lawyer, I'd still have it.

I'm a pack rat, like most people.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'

I'm a real hoarder.

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.