Quotes About Antique

The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, I found this up him! You know, said Tallow, I really have no response to that.

Suffering had struck that stage empress; and she stood before her audience neither yielding to, nor enduring, nor in finite measure, resenting it: she stood locked in struggle, rigid in resistance. She stood, not dressed, but draped in pale antique folds, long and regular like sculpture. A background and entourage and flooring of deepest crimson threw her out, white like alabaster like silver: rather, be it said, like Death.

My aesthetic is I love anything in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

To forget things I like getting lost in the smell of old books, the scent of the gods.

She loved everything vintage—clothes, furniture, music.

The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.

When I lived in Paris, I would shop at antique shops and buy these huge coats because I was very cold. And then I started performing in them because I felt safe. I never stopped doing that.

She sat in her chair and looked around the room. What should she take with her? The antique chatrang board her predecessor had given her? Her mummified baby alligator, which she had on the theory that every sorcerer's lair should have a mummified reptile of some kind?

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.

My film collection is all oldies.

I bought a 1200-year-old Viking bracelet once.

The antique shop in the Brompton Road proved, as fore-shadowed, to be an antique shop in the Brompton Road and, like all antique shops except the swanky ones in the Bond Street neigbourhood, dingy outside and dark and smelly within. I don't know why it is, but the proprietors of these establishments always seem to be cooking some sort of stew in the back room.

As Tradd approached me I turned my back toward him and found myself facing an antique mirror that reflected our three images in tarnished

and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.

nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.

To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

He was seated at his workbench now, the living room smelling of the resin of vanished summers, as he said of de-soldering antique Heathkits.

stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for

Officers looked at the antique once-animals that eyed them back, at the no giant tank, at the nowhere anything so big and missing as Architeuthis could be.

L'Islam a rompu l'unité méditerranéenne que les invasions germaniques avaient laissé subsister. C'est là le fait le plus essentiel qui se soit passé dans l'histoire européenne depuis les guerres puniques. C'est la fin de la tradition antique. C'est le commencement du Moyen Age, au moment même où l'Europe était en voie de se byzantiniser.

reading the Odyssey about the beautiful witch who transformed her admirers into beasts. A wonderful picture of antique love.