Antiques Quotes
I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
"Antiques Roadshow" is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, "don't bother me."
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.
Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.
Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.
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've gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I'm back to a flip-phone. It's funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they're considered antiques.
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.
I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.
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.
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.
I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.
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.
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 shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
There's a good deal of ivory being sold that claims to be antique ivory. In fact, we've seen evidence that there are fake antiques being carved in countries like China.
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.
