Quotes & Sayings About Collecting Antiques

My whole life had been a chronology of -- changes. — Malcolm X

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don' look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything. — St. Catherine Of Siena

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things. — Jason Wu

Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that he had done nothing; his father thought he had had a devil of a time and was afraid he had contracted a venereal disease, and he hadn't even had a woman; only one thing had happened to him, it was rather curious when you came to think of it, and he didn't just then quite know what to do about it: the bottom had fallen out of his world. — W. Somerset Maugham

My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It's filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can't really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets. — Mark Shand

I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their babies. I pulled on all the strength I had not to shot out every valuable leaded pane of glass in that stinking house. — Linda Leigh Hargrove

How honest is it that we drink until we are dehydrated? — Buddy Wakefield

Are you real?" He whispered, brushing up my face with the back of his fingers in a cherishing caress. "Because I'll want you forever. — Raine Miller

The items people own reveal something about the owners. Every quaint item that a person selects to surround themselves with has a basic quiddity, the essence, or inherent nature of things. As a people, we assign a value meaning not only to the things that we presently possess, but also to the items destined for one generation to hand down to the next generation. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space. — Therese Of Lisieux

Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better. — Finley Peter Dunne

She'd been in a hermetically sealed bubble. A " couple bubble" that made the rest of the male species invisible. — Alexandra Potter

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself — Jocelyn Murray

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means - the only complete realist.15 — Tad R. Callister

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in. — James Purefoy

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. — Mao Zedong

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is. — Stephen Mitchell