Antiques Quotes - Page 3

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

  Jacob Braude

  Modern Life, Use, Chairs

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• 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.

  Martin Freeman

  Home, Weekend, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

  John Milton

  Religious, Feet, Light

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems”, p.51, Modern Library

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

  Lance Loud

  School, Fur, Juniors

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• Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

  William Golding

  Character, Mean, Views

  William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.

  Emily Procter

  Thinking, Color, House

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• A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.

  Nancy Price

  Opposites, Individuality, Elements

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• I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, House, Black

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• 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

  Thinking, Thrill, Chance

  "ABC's Lara Spencer can't wait to host 'Antiques Roadshow' in 2004". Interview with Mary Daniel, articles.chicagotribune.com. July 20, 2003.

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• Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Jobs, Home, Unique

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• Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.

  Nick Hornby

  Home, School, Should Have

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

  Jaron Lanier

  Linux, Copies, Stills

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.126, Vintage

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• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Museums, Innovation

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: The argument: causality in the electric world”

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• 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

  Religious, Superstitions, Nehru

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

  David Boreanaz

  Vintage, Car, Tunes

  "David Boreanaz - Interviewed on location for Carpe Noctem in Los Angels". BBC Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. August 22, 2001.

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• What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.

  Alan Jackson

  Running, Country, Weather

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Son, Men, Illustration

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

  Allen Crawford

  Country, Ivory, Fake

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• I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

  Monica Potter

  Flower, Home, Want

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• My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.

  Zoey Deutch

  Mom, Passion, Hunting

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• Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

  Nigel Slater

  Couple, Party, Gay

  "In This Month's OFM". www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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

  Daryl Hall

  House, Architecture, Indulgence

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• (Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.

  William Baldwin

  Should Have, Years, Forever

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• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  Florence Welch

  Couple, Cutting, Bird

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• 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

  Morocco, Barns, Pottery

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