Quotes About Antique

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed God is Dead! he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.

FLINTLOCK (1610)

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

He's so old his blood type was discontinued.

A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for us to marvel at had to deal with plague, genocide, a world without writing, iron tools, or penicillin - and yet they made something extraordinary of their life and times.

I said to myself, with all the ardour of a sculptor, that this man was a faun's statue out of antique Hellas, dug from a temple's ruins and brought somehow to life in our stifling age only to feel the chill and pressure of devastating years.

I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.

I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

I'm fine. I'm at an antique store, by the clothes store just a mile or so from-" "Which clothes store, Tess? If you haven't noticed, there are about a million.

The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.

To a true collector, the acquisition of an old book is its rebirth," Oscar quoted, absent self-consciousness.

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.

background. Nancy had an antique brass bed. I had the feeling these girls weren't two of a kind. Meanwhile, I was going through things. The name she was using here was Glenna Cole, but I found identification cards of various sorts in several other names. The

table sat an antique ormolu clock, its hands frozen on the twelve and the ten, 11:50. The magic hour. The time when Zee's ghosts appeared in the greenhouse wall. Bits and pieces of two scenarios were coming back to her, fitting together like a child's jigsaw puzzle. She had, indeed, come to this place—Mathew Brady's New York studio—a short time earlier to have her portrait made