Trees are your best antiques

“The spectacle shop was old, long, and narrow, with a glass front and a small thin door that opened onto a somewhat busy avenue…

— K. M. Alexander

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the…

— Marshall McLuhan

“The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What happened to…

— Micky Barnetti

It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the…

— John Ratzenberger

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous…

— Ambrose Bierce

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that…

— Tom Berenger

When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear…

— Erin Wasson

“The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody…

— Jonathan Gash

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene...…

— Donald Byrd

I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a…

— Judith Miller

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

— Thomas Carlyle

I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques,…

— Monica Potter

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and…

— Aya Cash

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

— Sergio Leone

Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say,…

— Georges Perec