quotes about Vintage
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I love vintage, but it's so expensive now.
-- Alexandra Roach -
When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.
-- Alexis Lichine -
When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting,
-- Andrea IllySource : Andrea Illy, Rinantonio Viani (2005). “Espresso Coffee: The Science of Quality”, p.16, Academic Press
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Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
-- Andrew Bird -
I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.
-- Ann Hood -
I’ve been enjoying a couple of post-Oscar burgers. So I didn’t fit into a lot of the vintage stuff. I wanted to wear something that was a little bit more forgiving.
-- Anne Hathaway -
I don't like new cars; I'm into vintage cars - there's a Jaguar E-Type in the 'Goldie' video.
-- ASAP Rocky -
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Everything I do is unfabulous. Im the most normal person. I love walking everywhere, and going to hole-in-the-wall places, like nail shops, because they do the best job. And I go to vintage stores rather than high-end boutiques, because I like to dress different from other people.
-- Ashley Benson -
...I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used...
-- Bob Daisley -
Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser has so many uses, so it's my secret cleaning tool for keeping my shoes - like the vintage Air Jordan's I am obsessing over now - and my clients' shoes, scuff and dirt free.
-- Brad Goreski -
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
-- Brandi Carlile -
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There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It's a little bit dangerous, because you'll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.
-- Brandi Carlile -
I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop.
-- Bridget Hall -
I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.
-- Britt Ekland -
It's so cliche to say florals for spring. I really like a vintage-like dress that's floral. You can belt it; I like belts. I like wearing pretty dresses that are really comfortable, that you can spend the day in but also feel girly.
-- Brittany Snow -
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
-- Cara DelevingneSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen -
I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used.
-- Channing Tatum -
Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.
-- Charlaine Harris -
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Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.
-- Charlotte RonsonSource : "Arizona 20 Years: Charlotte Ronson". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.
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I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
I always had a sense that clothes, be it uniform or vintage, could help to create a character.
-- Collier Schorr -
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Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.
-- Dan Kimball -
I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.
-- David BoreanazSource : "David Boreanaz - Interviewed on location for Carpe Noctem in Los Angels". BBC Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. August 22, 2001.
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I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect.
-- Debi Mazar -
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs -
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I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around.
-- Elle Fanning -
I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.
-- Elle Fanning -
You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.
-- Elvis Costello -
I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.
-- Ernest Cline -
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
-- Gabrielle Anwar -
Yeah, okay. You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn't tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend's yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year.
-- Gena Showalter -
I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live.
-- Georgia May Jagger -
I love vintage and prints.
-- Georgina ChapmanSource : "Georgina Chapman's Style Secrets" by Kimberly Cutter, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 8, 2008.
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I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.
-- Helena Christensen -
I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.
-- Huey Lewis -
Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.
-- Ian Holloway -
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I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.
-- Illeana DouglasSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
-- India de BeaufortSource : "New Jane By Design Deets!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 22, 2012.
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.
-- J. B. Priestley -
Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different.
-- Jean AitchisonSource : Jean Aitchison (2013). “Language Change: Progress Or Decay?”, p.14, Cambridge University Press
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
-- John Steinbeck -
Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade
-- John Walter Bratton -
In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.
-- Johnny Weir -
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There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
-- Jon Bon Jovi -
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.
-- Jon Pareles -
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.
-- Josh Lanyon -
I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.
-- Julia Stiles -
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Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.
-- Karen Gillan -
I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
-- Katerina GrahamSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.
-- Katy Perry -
Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.
-- Kaya Scodelario -
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I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.
-- Kierston WareingSource : "My Style: Kierston Wareing". Interview with James Sherwood, www.independent.co.uk. August 30, 2008.
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I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.
-- Kristin Bauer van Straten -
I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down.
-- Lara Spencer -
My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.
-- Laura Prepon -
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You deserve to die," I whisper, suddenly realizing Iv'e said the words aloud. "Excuse me?" "Nothing." "Not nothing. You just told me that I deserve to be maggot feed." "Not maggot feed, just-" "Dead!" "Forget it" "I don't know why I said that. Just daydreaming, I guess." "Daydreaming about my death?" "Forget it", I repeat. "Are you sure you aren't still mad that I wouldn't let you borrow my vintage fishnet leggings?" "More like I didn't want to borrow them,
-- Laurie Faria Stolarz -
I am vegetarian, so I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I’ve got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC.
-- Leona Lewis -
I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.
-- Lianne La HavasSource : "Fashion Q&A: Lianne La Havas". Interview with Celia L. Smith, www.essence.com. July 26, 2012.
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I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.
-- Lily Donaldson -
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I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.
-- Lindsey WixsonSource : "Lindsey Wixson's a Mad Hatter" by EmilyHebert, www.elle.com. February 15, 2011.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.
-- Lucy LiuSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.
-- Madison Davenport -
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When I look at asset prices; real estate, bonds, equities, vintage cars… I think that gold is actually one of the few assets that is relatively cheap, relatively inexpensive.
-- Marc Faber -
While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
-- Margaret Atwood -
I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't a conscious thing. I didn't consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day.
-- Martin Gore -
I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.
-- Marv Albert -
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For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.
-- Matt Smith -
I love anything vintage. And I love Marc Jacobs and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti.
-- Meagan GoodSource : "Meagan Good – Deceptively Good". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. January 27, 2013.
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I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.
-- Michael Rosenbaum -
I don't at all want to resemble some of these young designers who ask hallucinating prices for rags that are so in fashion now, that six months later, they are old-fashioned! I love vintage boutiques, I love to customize my clothes. And then, with my friends, we regularly exchange togs.
-- Milla Jovovich -
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All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.
-- Monique TruongSource : Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
-- Natasha Bedingfield -
Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.
-- Neel BurtonSource : Neel Burton (2016). “The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition”, p.22, Acheron Press
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While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place during fermentation. As a result, wine contains trace amounts of a large number of organic acids, esters, sugars, alcohols, and other molecules. Wine is, in fact, one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.
-- Neel Burton -
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
-- Olivier Theyskens -
I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.
-- Phife Dawg -
I emcee how I feel for the moment. I'll always be influenced by Tribe, but my EP and LP have a lot of different flavors! I'll keep it vintage Tribe if Tribe decides to do another LP... which, in my heart, I'd love to do for the fans.
-- Phife Dawg -
My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.
-- Pierre Cardin -
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I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.
-- Rachel Roy -
Wine to me is something that brings people together. Â Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. Â It's the greatest subject to study. Â No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again.
-- Robert M. Parker, Jr.Source : "Lion in Winter: Robert M. Parker Jr. Addresses Wine Writers" by Richard Jennings, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2014.
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My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.
-- Sandra Lee -
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
-- Sloane Crosley -
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I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.
-- Sonam KapoorSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
-- T-Pain -
No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity
-- Taylor Swift -
I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.
-- Theophilus London -
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I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
-- Tommy Shaw -
It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
-- Tony Visconti -
Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.
-- Tony Visconti -
Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots.
-- Twiggy -
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It's a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn't feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to feel compelled to do something positive because they just love it, they're excited about it, and it's cool.
-- Usher -
Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10,
-- Winona Ryder -
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
-- Yves Saint Laurent -
The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.
-- Zoe Kravitz -