Antiques famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
-- Alice Temperley -
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
-- Billy Joel -
She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique...
-- Bob Dylan -
I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.
-- Broderick Crawford -
You have to fight against being an antique
-- Burt Lancaster -
Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.
-- Cee Lo Green -
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
-- Daryl Hall -
When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it.
-- Erin Wasson -
I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
-- Erin Wasson -
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.
-- Haruki Murakami -
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
-- John Hodgman -
When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.
-- Judith Miller -
When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.
-- Julian Barnes -
I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
-- Lance Loud -
I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
-- Lara Spencer -
Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.
-- Li Ka-shing -
I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.
-- Lindsey Wixson -
Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance.
-- Mark Klett -
We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage
-- Maurice Barres -
Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.
-- Mimi Sheraton -
Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
-- Paul Lynde -
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
-- Robert Ardrey -
I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.
-- Stephen Bayley -
You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.
-- Ted Hughes -
Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
-- Ursula Andress -
When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
-- Ursula Andress -
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
-- Walton Goggins -
The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
-- William Butler Yeats -
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
-- William Robertson Smith -
You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.
-- Aya Cash -
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.
-- Jacob Braude -
Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.
-- Jane Cleland -
I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
-- Kelly Wearstler -
I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.
-- Pankaj Mishra
