Antiques Quotes - Page 5

• It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the willingness of people to come out to see us five actors drive by in antique cars in the Boston rain. Well, it was the first time I really understood the show's popularity.

  John Ratzenberger

  Stars, War, Rain

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• 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.

  William Friedkin

  Want, Painting, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Greek sculpture, from the sixth century onward, were originally parts of compositions, and if we were faced with the complete group in which the Charioteer of Delphi was once a subsidiary figure, we might well experience a moment of revulsion. We have come to think of the fragment as more vivid, more concentrated, and more authentic.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Thinking, Greek

  Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books

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• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "10 Questions: Poppy Delevingne" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. October 9, 2012.

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• If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.

  Dan Brown

  Glasses, Blood, Ideas

  "Dan Brown: Veni vidi da Vinci". www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2004.

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• The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Jobs, Book, Casts

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.69

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• By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing.

  Paul Brown

  Hands, Two, People

  Source: www.missbargainhuntress.com

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• I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things.

  Jason Wu

  Interesting, Mixing, Experts

  "Jason Wu Makes His Move into Home". Interview with Anne Monoky, www.architecturaldigest.com. October 31, 2011.

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

  Erin Wasson

  Clothes, Obscurity, Furniture

  "Erin Wasson on Her Hair, Antique Shopping, and Cooking". Interview with Leah Melby Clinton, www.elle.com. September 20, 2012.

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• A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Lying, Past, Men

  MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

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• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Echoes, Depth, Radio

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• 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.

  Tim Allen

  Past, Iphone, Phones

  "Tim Allen Talks LAST MAN STANDING, Classic Sitcoms, Stand-Up, and the Future of the TOY STORY Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I had a dream about riding a black cat, and then the next day I was at this antique mart, and I found this little devil riding a black cat - an Austrian bronze, tiny little thing. It was super tiny. And it was kind of like, "Oh my God, my dream came true." Except it was a devil, of course. Not me.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Dream, Cat, Next Day

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Truth, Joy

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

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• I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Mom, Military, Book

  "A Day Out With The Middle Kids". Interview with Ingela Ratledge, www.tvguide.com. February 8, 2012.

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• 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.

  Mark Klett

  Giving, Unnecessary, Drawers

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• A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  Emily Dickinson (2009). “Poems: Series I - III, Complete”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• 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.

  Jim Rohn

  Fundamentals, Littles, Factories

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 01, 2016

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• I had a big fight about how to make something come into the real, to make it physical. It sounds really antique, but it's a question of, how do I make this idea happen? You can't just will it into existence. You have to educate, you have to persuade, you have to seduce, you have to do all this stuff to make something three-dimensional and happen. It's not just a concept. It's actually a reality.

  Sarah Morris

  Real, Fighting, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Robert Ardrey

  Men, Weapons, Assumption

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got the largest number of antique shops in the UK, so it's a great place to fence stolen goods. It's got tremendous communication: you've got the sea ports, you've got the channel tunnel, you've got Gatwick Airport 25 minutes away, and London's 50 minutes away by train. So all these escape routes... Which is what villains like.

  Peter James

  Communication, Airports, Sea

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition!

  Julia Spencer-Fleming

  Writing, Gold, Pace

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• Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique coins. I sat frozen, awash in a sea of power. I was beginning to understand why Mircea had wanted him along, only Daddy had failed to mention anything about the hair-trigger temper. I guess he assumed the red hair would clue me in.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Hair, Sea

  Karen Chance (2008). “Midnight's Daughter”, p.151, Penguin

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• Certain movies that are trying to evoke history are just like being in an antique store, and all you notice is that all the stuff has been gathered together, and it feels like a pile of antiques. How can you think that that will evoke the past? It doesn't even have to evoke anything, but anyway, it's how we're living. It's this moment where nobody has to immediately think too much about how things are being documented. It's a great time.

  Ben Katchor

  Thinking, Past, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sunshine, White, Wow

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