Tom Waits Quotes

I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about how long these things have lasted - some of it is 400 years old - I find the history of these things extraordinary.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.

I've always had an eye for the oddities in life.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.

I like what's obscure.

I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.

I collect all kinds of things.

I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for 'Antiques Roadshow' on my TiVo.

I love going into junk shops, picking up something that looks like it's got a bit of history to it, then sanding it down and reviving it.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was the biggest conflagration that this particular planet had seen. There was a lot of talk about utopia and how it was possible, and then, because of these events that for one reason or another couldn't be stopped, the idea of utopia went out the window.

A radiant fellowship of the fallen.