Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you haven't been to Quack's, you haven't been to the antique show,

Judith Miller

If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return visit at the end. They may be more inclined to accept your offer, rather than having to pack the piece up and take it home.

James Vincent McMorrow

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

John Ashcroft

I regret to inform you that we are today sending our troops into the modern field of battle with antique weapons. It is not a prescription for victory,

But that's not what qualified me for membership. It was the (1963 documentary) film I made, 'The Seat of Your Pants,' which featured a bunch of OX5 pilots -- old-timers flying antique airplanes.

Antique buttons are more interesting, especially the 19th century buttons which depicted all sorts of activities.

The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.

Donald Young

The old man - the antique - is not here this morning.

O. Henry

The most overlooked and yet the rarest antique in my home is the sugar chest in the dining room. It doesn't have any lavish carving, or fancy painting; it is very simple. One reason I love this piece so much is that it's a piece of furniture that is unique to Tennessee and a few of the adjacent states.

They put in Bakelite patterned brown light switch covers, which were really handsome, so we kept them. We really loved the brown pattern so much that when we go to yard sales and antique shops we look for similar ones to clean and install.

It really started out as a hobby. We both like antiques, and antique clocks especially, and when something didn't work he would figure it out. We started doing repairs for family and friends, and fixing antique clocks. There was so much work coming to us that we thought we'd try it as a business. It seemed like there was really a need for it. It's a lost art.

Tina Fey

Whenever you see me, I'm on antique quaaludes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Each class has a different approach. In the furniture class, they will walk through a local furniture store to learn about antique furnishings. The architecture class focuses on Black Belt architecture.

Eric loves to visit antique shops and I do too. It's always been a love for both of us and his aunt was an antique dealer. We've always talked about doing something with antiques and teaching people to identify what they have and so I said, 'let's go for it!' It's also to introduce people to the art of being able to assess what it is that you have. People go out and frequent these garage sales and the antique shops and sometimes they just see something that's pretty, but they have no idea what the value is.

Todd Fisher

Excessive humidity is a severe enemy to antique textiles.

Michael Sims

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

There will be quilts for sale, antiques for sale and the merchant mall with tons of fabrics, notions and anything a quilter could ever want.

Stephen Bayley

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

Huey Newton

The United States is already antique.

Arthur Clough

Still more plain the Tutor, the grave man, nicknamed Adam, / White-tied, clerical, silent, with antique square-cut waistcoat / Formal, unchanged, of black cloth, but with sense and feeling beneath it.

E. O. Wilson

Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to transcend it. They are affirmations and celebrations of the value and worth of the African-American spirit. And young people would do well to understand them as the roots of today's rap, rather than some antique to be tossed away.

Joe McCarthy

It's a car cruise. You don't have to have an old antique car to get into this. If you have a 2005 pickup and you like it, bring it down and register. If you have a 1928 Ford, bring that down. This isn't necessarily old cars.

It's from the 30s or 40s, and I found it in an antique shop. It's the perfect height and width to hide the shower.

Greg Clark

That's the beauty of it. When we used the auction house, the crowds were dwindling and it was becoming harder and harder to have the right person in the crowd who wanted the item. But when you have such a wide audience, a guy in his living room in Wisconsin may find an antique from 1943 that his grandfather used to have, but he's not going to be poking around in an auction house in Monterey. So around here it can sell for $10, but this guy is going to pay $50 for it.

Ursula Andress

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

Kasey Keller

It's like an antique car. There's always something that needs to be done. That's the only real drawback: You're living in a 1,000-year old property.

Jaron Lanier

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Norman Rockwell

I'm the oldest antique in town.

William Friedkin

You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.