Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Young

The old man - the antique - is not here this morning.

Antique buttons are more interesting, especially the 19th century buttons which depicted all sorts of activities.

They put in Bakelite patterned brown light switch covers, which were really handsome, so we kept them. We really loved the brown pattern so much that when we go to yard sales and antique shops we look for similar ones to clean and install.

Huey Newton

The United States is already antique.

Each class has a different approach. In the furniture class, they will walk through a local furniture store to learn about antique furnishings. The architecture class focuses on Black Belt architecture.

Eric loves to visit antique shops and I do too. It's always been a love for both of us and his aunt was an antique dealer. We've always talked about doing something with antiques and teaching people to identify what they have and so I said, 'let's go for it!' It's also to introduce people to the art of being able to assess what it is that you have. People go out and frequent these garage sales and the antique shops and sometimes they just see something that's pretty, but they have no idea what the value is.

Ursula Andress

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.

Michael Sims

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

Narciso Rodriguez

I started to design the collection by designing the fabric. ... I had some antique fabrics that I had developed into new fabrics, and then introduced reflective materials into the fabrics,

Judith Miller

You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.

Todd Fisher

Excessive humidity is a severe enemy to antique textiles.

I'm concerned that people don't take her passing as an opportunity to further antique the causes that she and her husband and others stood for. Anybody who thinks that work is over is either terribly ignorant or willfully blind.

If you haven't been to Quack's, you haven't been to the antique show,

Judith Miller

If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return visit at the end. They may be more inclined to accept your offer, rather than having to pack the piece up and take it home.

James Vincent McMorrow

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

Joe McCarthy

It's a car cruise. You don't have to have an old antique car to get into this. If you have a 2005 pickup and you like it, bring it down and register. If you have a 1928 Ford, bring that down. This isn't necessarily old cars.

It's from the 30s or 40s, and I found it in an antique shop. It's the perfect height and width to hide the shower.

Kasey Keller

It's like an antique car. There's always something that needs to be done. That's the only real drawback: You're living in a 1,000-year old property.

If you were selling antiques in the Bay area, now your market is not just consumers (there), but in the entire United States,

I guess they were impressed. We were one of two antique shops they recommended.

John Ashcroft

I regret to inform you that we are today sending our troops into the modern field of battle with antique weapons. It is not a prescription for victory,

O. Henry

The most overlooked and yet the rarest antique in my home is the sugar chest in the dining room. It doesn't have any lavish carving, or fancy painting; it is very simple. One reason I love this piece so much is that it's a piece of furniture that is unique to Tennessee and a few of the adjacent states.

There will be quilts for sale, antiques for sale and the merchant mall with tons of fabrics, notions and anything a quilter could ever want.

It really started out as a hobby. We both like antiques, and antique clocks especially, and when something didn't work he would figure it out. We started doing repairs for family and friends, and fixing antique clocks. There was so much work coming to us that we thought we'd try it as a business. It seemed like there was really a need for it. It's a lost art.

I know a lot about a lot of things, but there's always something to learn. That's the beauty of the antiques business.

Tina Fey

Whenever you see me, I'm on antique quaaludes.

Norman Rockwell

I'm the oldest antique in town.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Stephen Bayley

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

William Friedkin

You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.