Quotes About Antique

An object that has been owned and cherished by other human beings for centuries develops a personality of its own that reaches out to you. It's like an old friend. Do

Porque es antiguo; ésta es la razón principal. Aquí las cosas antiguas no nos son útiles. —¿Aunque sean bellas? —Especialmente cuando son bellas. La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.

This car was a Rover 90, made in 1955, and therefore very old.

Poiché mi sembrate un intenditore d'arte, vi chiedo il permesso di mostrarvi un giorno o l'altro la mia galleria, ricca di quadri antichi, tutti di grandi autori; i moderni non mi piacciono. - Avete ragione; essi hanno, almeno, un grande difetto: di non aver avuto ancora il tempo di diventare antichi.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

vanilla and turf smells of old books.

though the antique Luxembourg Gardens suit me better.

Look, Grover Cleveland," one of them finally snapped at me after my third approach. "Harmoniums and water wings, diavolos and pungs we got, but Victorian easy chairs—nyet. And now, excuse me, will you? I have another nudnick here wants a round table like King Arthur's.

Abraham as a boy crawled around the synagogue bum-in-air with his nose pressed against antique Chinese blue. He never told his mother that his father had reappeared in ceramic form on the synagogue floor a year after he decamped, in a little blue rowing-boat with blue-skinned foreign-looking types by his side, heading off towards an equally blue horizon.

Listen to that lovely music, Better than mythology! Your gods, elderly and antique, Give them up, they're now passé. Those old tales have lost all meaning, We aim at a higher goal: From the soul must come the feeling That can move another's soul.

Grandmothers are just antique little girls.

Grandfathers are just antique little boys.

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.

It was a big room with a shag carpet, antique lamps, a cabinet TV from days when entertainment lurked in the guise of furniture

ANTICK  (A'NTICK)   adj.[probably from antiquus, ancient, as things out of use appear old.]Odd; ridiculously wild; buffoon in gesticulation. What! dares

There is somehow something extraordinarily alluring about the scent of old paper, and the feel of brittle pages.  It's a gateway opening onto the past; it's a hand stretching out from the long-ago to clasp yours.

I bought two sculptures of two baboons called Lord and Lady Muck on an antique piece of furniture from an art exhibition, and it was quite expensive. It was very expensive, actually - way too expensive.

I'm an old-timey gal.

Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.

She found herself staring at a tintype, a late-nineteenth-century photograph.

It was an old tale. It was too old.