17 Secondhand Quotes for You to Enjoy

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. Mark Twain

Better Old Too Secondhand Particular None Diamonds Than Us Let Us

Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed. Jeffrey Kluger

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff. Amy Lee

Creative Matter Looking Design Secondhand Find Wear Costume Onstage Stuff Like Always Lot Shop Just Store Anything Unique Things

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. Brad Bird

Heroes Secondhand Television Got Movies Certain Certain Extent Extent

All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places. George Packer

You People Secondhand Once Visit Find Wearing Faded Longer Over Continent American Africa Clothing Want Places Wore Strangest

When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between - which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we'd get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go. Greg Lynn

Life Hate My Life Big Down Secondhand Everything Kids Scale Would See Attached Horses Take Had Between Toys Became Go Were Rocking Surrounded Get Store In-Between Which Them Hollow Then Toddlers Plastic Things

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops. Hari Kunzru

Life Beautiful Addicted Secondhand Unlikely Books Nelson Some Read Because Lord Grandmother Binding Ever Copy Kept

As I was finding my musical style, I found my personal style as well, and moving from Germany to L.A. was part of that, raiding the secondhand stores in L.A. trying out different beauty themes, finding my love for huge lashes and big, long hair extensions. Kim Petras

Love Long Hair Beauty Big Style Secondhand Musical Out Finding Long Hair Part Well Huge Germany Trying Personal Different Stores Personal Style Moving Themes Found Extensions Lashes

I've always been kind of deep into thrifting and secondhand clothing. Kyle Mooney

Secondhand Kind Always Been Clothing Deep

Sloppy casual has always been my default look. My preppier classmates in high school would sometimes sport two, three, even four shirts at a time - Lauren, Izod, Brooks Brothers, all collars-up - while I wore secondhand faded olive German-army fatigues and this cool T-shirt with a troll on it. Michael Paterniti

Time Sometimes School Three Secondhand High Would Sloppy Brooks Lauren Brothers High School Classmates Casual Faded Look Sport Always Been Shirts While Wore Cool Even Olive Default Four Two

Katwe is fifteen minutes from my home. It's entirely about knowing it from the inside. For instance, the incredible vibrancy of style. Kampala is the center of used clothing in the world. Everyone dresses in secondhand clothes, but they look astonishing for it. Mira Nair

I don't think I met an actual Mormon until college, and by that time, I was wary of them. I knew about the church through school and, secondhand, through non-Mormon friends. Robert Lopez

Time School Church College Met Think Secondhand About Mormon Through Knew Until Friends Them Wary Actual

I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge. Samantha Harvey

Knowledge Live Think Difficulty Assumptions Secondhand Because Surface Lot Up Often Just Ends Us Function Level

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