56 Quotes About Vintage

His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act.

The pieces didn't really coordinate and could be described in no other way than 'eclectic', but once labeled 'eclectic', valuable mismatches generally become fantastically stylish. Very similar to the way adding cash value to 'crazy' results in a whimsical 'eccentric'; you have to buy more flattering adjectives.

I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

বইখানা খুলিতেই একদল কাগজ-কাটা পোকা নিঃশব্দে বিবর্ণ মার্বেল কাগজের নিচে হইতে বাহির হইয়া ঊর্ধ্বশ্বাসে যেদিকে দুই চোখ যায় দৌড় দিল। অপু বইখানা নাকের কাছে লইয়া গিয়া ঘ্রাণ লইল, কেমন পুরোনো গন্ধ! মেটে রঙের পুরু পুরু পাতাগুলোর এই গন্ধটা তাহার বড় ভালো লাগে

Moments later as we crossed the road to the 50’s diner, I recited the restaurant rules in my head one more time.Rule one: Keep your hands clean.Rule two: Careful with the food trays.Rule three: Visit the soda fountain as often as you like, but don’t make yourself sick.Rule four: Enjoy the poodle skirt.

The studio is torn down, all the people who played on it are dead, the instruments have been sold off. But you are listening to a moment that happened in time sixty years ago and you are hearing it just as sharp as when it was made. That remains an amazing thing to me.

It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or arouses a necessary sympathy.

Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the last season.

That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.