Quotes About Vintage

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

If loneliness were a grape the wine would be vintage If it were a wood the furniture would be mahogany But since it is life it is Cotton Candy on a rainy day The sweet soft essence of possibility Never quite maturing from Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day

You have a sixty-seven GTO convertible, in factory red." He stood in reverent silence for ten full seconds. "I think you have to marry me now. You're the first woman besides Loo who's seen her and known what she is. I'm pretty sure we're engaged.

Unsophisticated', he said, cracking himself up again, 'but nubile'. Jesus, where do they get that stuff? Nubile. Try to contain your hilarity. Sophia sat behind the desk in her office in the villa and continued to study the models Kris had chosen for the ads. And I'd appreciate it if you'd warn me the next time you decide to add a mystery vintage to the selection. Last-minute candidate. And it was in the name of science.

As rooms went it was a sad statement, with its ancient coppertone appliances, white-with-gold-speckled countertops and fake-brick linoleum floor.

Is this a good time to raise the question of seat belts? asked Giordino with his feet raised and wedged against the dashboard of the L-29 Cord town car. Pitt shook his head. Not optional equipment in 1930.

The motorcycle crashed into the wine cellar of the hotel's restaurant. There must be a hundred broken bottles of vintage wine flowing down a drain in the floor.

Julia tensed as she looked through the steering wheel of the Model J Duesenberg and saw the needle creep up and waver at seventy miles an hour. This car doesn't have seat belts. They didn't believe in them in 1929.

No oil or water leaks. Don't push the Stutz too hard. We may have rebuilt the engine, but it's over sixty years old. And you can't buy spare Stutz parts at Pep Boys.

All I knew was that there was a wine called Chianti, which came in bottles with little baskets,

No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.

Vintage." Lexie sighed and set upon the rack with reverence.

My father, Tom Sheeran, would borrow a big old clumsy car with a running board.

Kauffman Luxury Vintage vodka. Distilled fourteen times and filtered twice, once through birch coal, once through quartz sand, it was produced from the wheat of a single year's harvest, making it one of the only vodkas released with a specific vintage, like wine or champagne.

Even the automobiles have an air of antiquity here.

Even the jukebox plays nothing but oldies, mostly

I have lost a lot of clothes over the years... Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano's spring/summer 1993 show.

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!

We all have flaws, curves, and tempers, but together, it creates us, a vintage kind of beautiful.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

You may not have noticed, but men over retirement age seem to have a lot of clothes of an earlier vintage." "Yep," he said. "We're all timing it to wear them out at the moment of death so everything comes out even.

I am an old-school guitar player. I'm not an '80s-'90s sort of shredder who plays a million notes a minute. I am way more '60s-'70s kind of style, and I write very '60s-'70s.