Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valerie June

Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.

Bonnie Tyler

I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.

My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It's filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can't really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets.

Time is running out for most antique paper, ... Modern technology is a part of God's plan to help not only with remembering the past but creating future possibilities that at this time we cannot imagine.

We have a lot of antiques and folk art and historical things, but we also like the clean lines of modern furniture. It's kind of a fusion.

You can get a really nice look for an antique piece. You don't have to spend the money for antique. You can really have the same look with a reproduction.

Hamish Bowles

This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

One of my favorite places I've visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a week in Havana. The colors, the music, the beautiful men and the cars! I love vintage and antique cars and own a couple myself.

Jason Smith

Grocery stores used to be on every corner, now it's antique stores.

Ridley Scott

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.

There is a lot of antique jewelry being sold now, showing how the Victorian look is also coming back. There will be a lot of lacey, feminine, mature tops for girls to wear this spring.

Bob Dylan

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique...

Allan Gurganus

People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.

CeeLo Green

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.

When antiques started to decline, I shifted more of my square footage over to new furniture and decor, ... The antique mall is now 30 percent of the square footage where at one point it was 100 percent.

Looking for antique sleds and sleighs and memorabilia is like a treasure hunt. We have some items in our collection that we just happened upon.

Looking for antiques is what we love. Most anytime that we're traveling, the car seems to find where there's an antique shop.

I am hearing from some people that antiques bought online were not received as described,

But that's not what qualified me for membership. It was the (1963 documentary) film I made, 'The Seat of Your Pants,' which featured a bunch of OX5 pilots -- old-timers flying antique airplanes.

Alice Temperley

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

We are the largest antique clock shop in the U.S.. We sold 6,000 clocks last year. If you know of anyone who sold more, tell me about them.

We had two businesses that were nice on the Avenue ? there was a cafe, then it switched to a framing shop, but she left. This is what the goal was, to get more antique dealers here to create a destination.

Daniel Barenboim

When I came here, I had the feeling that I had in front of me a most wonderful high quality piece of antique furniture. It was full of dust and needed repair and polishing. I think we have removed the dust and made the repairs.

When the inn remodeled in the 1950s, tons of Arts and Crafts furnishings were just thrown out or given away. Now they're so collectible, Grove Park Inn antiques have a category on eBay.

Arthur Clough

Still more plain the Tutor, the grave man, nicknamed Adam, / White-tied, clerical, silent, with antique square-cut waistcoat / Formal, unchanged, of black cloth, but with sense and feeling beneath it.

E. O. Wilson

Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to transcend it. They are affirmations and celebrations of the value and worth of the African-American spirit. And young people would do well to understand them as the roots of today's rap, rather than some antique to be tossed away.

Greg Clark

That's the beauty of it. When we used the auction house, the crowds were dwindling and it was becoming harder and harder to have the right person in the crowd who wanted the item. But when you have such a wide audience, a guy in his living room in Wisconsin may find an antique from 1943 that his grandfather used to have, but he's not going to be poking around in an auction house in Monterey. So around here it can sell for $10, but this guy is going to pay $50 for it.

Marcus Aurelius

You have friends, Paullus, just like your pictures and vases, all antique originals

Calvin Klein

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.

Gail Z. Martin

The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.

Gail Z. Martin

My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.

Jaron Lanier

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.