Fleas Quotes - Page 7

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

  Theo Rossi

  Vintage, Rose, Antiques

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• I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.

  Roz Chast

  Cute, Thinking, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional.

  John Petrucci

  Guitar, Would Be, Instruments

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Flea Markets, Related

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Glasses, Flea Markets, Thread

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.

  Kelley Armstrong

  T Shirt, Shirts, Middle

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• I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

  Jonathan Ames

  Car, Absurd, Sciatica

  Jonathan Ames (2012). “The Extra Man”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Kings, Son

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Faust, Part One”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog.

  Robert Fulghum

  Dog, Names, Arguing

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.135, Ivy Books

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• Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.

  Earl Weaver

  Running, Mistake, Team

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• A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

  Ray Comfort

  Elephants, Enemy, Chance

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• I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

  April Bowlby

  Sunday, Interesting, Santa

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

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• I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.

  Iris Apfel

  Years, Eyeglasses, Saws

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.

  Steven Weber

  Dog, Lying, Fear Mongering

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

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• Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Summer, Daughter, School

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• Oh God almighty, another Detroit monster is Chad Smith of the Chili Peppers. Their music is intoxicating between Flea and Chad Smith. They're contemporary because they're still making good records, but I don't think there's anything new that has a groove and soulfulness. The Chili Peppers just stink of soul-and that's the ultimate compliment. They continue what James Brown created.

  Ted Nugent

  Thinking, Soul, Monsters

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