Quotes About Vintage Books

#1. Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

Josh Lanyon

#2. 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.

Poppy Delevingne

#3. I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

Jessica Simpson

#4. I think it's beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you love.

Atticus Poetry

#5. Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

Ashwin Sanghi

#6. The designer ... has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists ... the designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.

David E. Kelley

#7. I've never believed anyone could put more pressure on me than I put on myself. People expect great things from me. I expect great things from myself.

Steve McNair

#8. The Doctor gave a modest shrug. Well, I must admit that I made heads turn wherever I go. It's a burden that I just have to live with.

Jacqueline Rayner

#9. Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory.

Jim Dunnigan

#10. When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.

Andrew Rosenthal

#11. I was in love. Perhaps not with the man of my dreams, but with a man that was more man than any I'd ever encountered.

Kristen Ashley

#12. The inability to hold cash and the pressure to be fully invested at all times meant that when the plug was pulled out of the tub, all boats dropped as the water rushed down the drain.

Seth Klarman

#13. The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.

John Howard Matthews

#14. I can count the number of great Cabernets I made at Beaulieu only by taking off my socks and shoes, but I can count the number of great Pinot Noirs on one hand with change left over.

Andre Tchelistcheff

#15. I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

Jean Dujardin

#16. He shook his ladle overhead as if summoning the wrath of angel chefs among the stars.

Gregory Maguire

#17. Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

Carol P. Christ

#18. I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs.

Rebecca McNutt