Zitat des Tages über Antiquität / Antique:
When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live in a 100-year-old house, and I work in an apartment above the carriage house.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.
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.
What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.
My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out on his bike. He's got some antique Indians. I never really rode during my career, because I was afraid I'd fall off and ruin my career.
You have to fight against being an antique.
I'm the oldest antique in town.
I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Dodger Stadium is not an antique. It's not Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a nice place to play baseball, but there are far better.
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.
My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.
The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.
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.
I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.
You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
I still like my antique clothes.
Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.
I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.
Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.
I wear a lot of different jewelry. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.
Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.
