Quotes About Vintage

Everything around me smelled musty, like when you open an old book and it smells like words.

The times change, but the nature of men does not. Such men ... will not find our new age more favorable, and they will tell us that their evils are only necessities of the times. But they will linger in the house of the Devil, savor his vintage, and acquire a taste for it.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

I have a rotary phone from the sixties, it take forever to dial, which keeps me from making impulsive calls.

Jason P. Mitchell, "Watching Minds Interact," in What's Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science, ed. Max Brockman (New York: Vintage, 2009), 78–88.

Both of these were played on the family's new state-of-the-art gramophone that was electric and connected to a device resembling a cross between the cabinets made in the days of Louis XIV and a Rolls-Royce dashboard.

her clothes were hung on old metal hangers like a threadbare assemblage of frustrated sighs.

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

There are three groups of old car enthusiasts: people who think a car should be left as much original as possible; the ones who restore it better than factory; and the people who gut them and replace the brakes, engine, and suspension with more modern equipment.

Miss Silver's fire. 'Of course

If circumstances dictate that your disposable income has to come from eating ramen alongside your vintage Cantillon gueuze, so be it.