Antiques Quotes

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

Trees are your best antiques

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

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.

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

An antique is anything old with class.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

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.

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.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

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.

I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

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

The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

You have to fight against being an antique

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

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

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

I still like my antique clothes.

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

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.

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.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.

I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.

White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake.

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.

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old and there were all these weird ladies selling their antiques. We call them "eclectic" now. But it was really amazing that I was exposed to that when I was younger. Now that I have my own taste, I understand it more.

It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

The United States is already antique.