Antiquarian Quotes

#1. CUSTOMER: What kind of bookshop is this?
BOOKSELLER: We're an antiquarian bookshop.
CUSTOMER: Oh, so you sell books about fish.

Jen Campbell

#2. the shewbread to tell of Jesus, the Bread of Life, and the altar of

A.W. Tozer

#3. Cover each with plastic wrap (you see, I hope, that I am no mere antiquarian, insisting on barefoot walks through unimproved sculleries. I am as grateful as anyone for real progress as any modernist. More so, perhaps. Anything that preserves freshness for the pot is on the side of the angels.

Robert Farrar Capon

#4. You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#5. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

#6. The essential function of feelings is to provide feedback and pass through us organically like water flows in a river.

Deborah Sandella

#7. It is only now and then in some very remote and backward agricultural district that an antiquarian may still discover a square house.

Edwin A. Abbott

#8. Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

Juliette Binoche

#9. You can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.'
'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

Margaret Mitchell

#10. A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.

Ben Horowitz

#11. Life is BETTER when you're SMILING!

Karen Gibbs

#12. All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Voltaire

#13. If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

Henri Pirenne

#14. I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

William Boyd

#15. I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

Gerard Depardieu

#16. With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian.

Michael Dirda

#17. To write is to educate and to entertain. Never to exclude.

Glen David Gold

#18. Is there a difference between being the midwife of truth, or the midwife of legends?

Amin Maalouf

#19. Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

Andy Rooney

#20. My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader.

Teju Cole