At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first. — Ethel Merman
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. — Neil Innes
Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets. — Ursula Andress
It's hard to find things that won't sell online. — Jeff Bezos
I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause. — Lara Spencer
We love a good deal. Outlets, yeah, we do the outlets all the time. — Joe Gatto
I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder. — Ashley Jensen
If you make a habit of buying things you do not need, you will soon be selling things you do. — Filipino Proverbs
Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend. — Lucy Liu
Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. — Jensen Huang
If you buy things you don’t need, you’ll soon be selling things you do. — Filipino Proverbs
He who hasn’t money, shouldn’t go to the market. — Hungarian Proverbs
Buying is cheaper than asking. — Proverbs
If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need. — Warren Buffett
Trees are your best antiques — Alexander Smith
Sales bring out the worst in people. — Haley Webb
Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. — Indian Proverbs
Thrift is of great revenue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Flea Markets Image Quotes
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Farmers Markets Quotes
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out. — John Maynard Keynes
The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong. — Carla Hall
Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up! — Rachael Ray
Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell.
Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy. — G. Garvin
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. — Grover Norquist
I dream of a Digital India where farmers are empowered with real-time information to be connected with Global Markets. — Narendra Modi
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option. — Alison Sweeney
When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic. — David Schwimmer
Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops. — Rick Larsen
Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make. — Michael Symon
Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them. — Edward Snowden
Sell the problem you solve, not the product.
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. — John Donne
When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something. — Ursula Andress
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. — Penelope Spheeris
Be the best. It's the only market thats not crowded.
It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s. — Zooey Deschanel
My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff. — Lily Collins
I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment. — Chloe Sevigny
I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays. — Zoe Kravitz
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time. — Nate Berkus
I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet. — Candice Swanepoel
Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special. — Kelly Wearstler
I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them. — Iris Apfel
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market. — Amy Sedaris
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism. — Ransom Riggs
I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym. — Sayings
I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents. — Roz Chast
I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there. — Wolfgang Beltracchi
When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it. — Erin Wasson
It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns. — Janet Reno
Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. — Samuel Johnson
You never know when you're going to get an opportunity. — Dwight Henry
I was going to the flea markets to buy furniture. It was getting done the way it was getting done - on a small scale and with a lot of soul and heart and risk. We did fashion like fashion was done before - spontaneously, with joy and freedom, and that's what created our identity. — Ines de La Fressange
There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional. — John Petrucci
Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her. — J. Ruth Gendler
Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum. — Jack Pierson
My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to. — Khaled Hosseini
The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets. — Stephen Vincent Benet
I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen. — Bela Fleck
I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market. — Theo Rossi
When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered. — Nate Berkus
Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale. — Nate Berkus
'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market. — Nate Berkus
I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay. — Chelsea Leyland
Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family. — Ted Lieu
I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel. — Hamish Bowles
I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994. — Alec Baldwin
I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there. — April Bowlby
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling. — Allan Bloom
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads. — Jennifer Weiner
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