Bric A Brac Quotes

#1. 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

#2. ...and lovers of romance novels and dissident rebels and brothers in Christ and druids and shamans and aphrodisiac vendors and scriveners and purveyors of real fake passports and gun-runners and porters and bric-a-brac trades and mining prospectors short on liquid assets and Siamese twins...

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#3. Figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. I'd try eBay, if I were you," Harry replies. "You might even get more than you paid for it." Plenty of fools all over the planet willing to pay good money for allegedly haunted bric-a-brac.

Camille DeAngelis

#5. When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

Helen Keller

#6. It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac.

James Siegel

#7. For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

Mark Twain

#8. Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Jan Morris

#9. I shall die as I have lived, surrounded by bric-a-brac, sold by weight among the postscripts added to lost things.

Fernando Pessoa

#10. Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.

Glen Duncan

#11. Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

Bill Hayden

#12. The ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

T. S. Eliot

#13. No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

Catherine McAuley

#14. A rainbow in the sky or a bird that can fly often create Joy that money can't buy!-RVM

R.v.m.

#15. The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

Laura Prepon

#16. The greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none".

Unknown Author 692

#17. Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.

Jamie Redknapp