Flea Quotations

I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.

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markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.

My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.

We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get people like Slash, Flea and Kris Kristofferson on my album. Collaboration should be done through trades rather than charging each other a fortune.

If I'm going to try and find something, I stick to the flea markets, or I pull hand-me-downs from my family because I like pieces to have stories.

We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.

I do honour the very flea of his dog.

I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

I love clothes! I shop everywhere, but I like Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Nordstrom, and Neiman Marcus. It's a wide range. I'm from California, and I love the Pasadena Flea Market.

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.

And I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

I always had dreams. I knew I wanted to have money to buy things at the flea market. That's worked out well.

I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

We bought all the furnishings and accessories for the bungalow before we actually closed on it. We shopped at all the home stores -- Home Goods, Tuesday Morning, Art Van -- as well as flea markets, estate sales and the Salvation Army.

My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to flea markets. As a kid, I couldn't really stand it, but as I grew up, I became that guy, and when I have kids, I am going to be doing the same thing.

My favorite leather jacket I got for 40 bucks at the Fairfax Flea Market, like, eight years ago. Leather just gets better over time. There's something about a jacket that you have over years and years - just fits like a glove.

I go to flea markets every weekend if I can.

I have a weak spot for late '60s-early '70s yippie paperbacks and protest manifestos. I find them at flea markets or online. One of my favorites is 'Right On,' a compendium of student protests made into this 95-cent paperback with the most amazing graphics.

If a person has a flea infestation, it is time to call a professional pest control company to treat the problem quickly and effectively. If someone has a severe reaction to flea bites, they should take precaution and seek immediate medical attention.

I would see her and her daughters on the front porch and in the back yard. I was shocked. I was just talking to her. We had gone to the Hometown Flea Market and when we got back everyone was saying your neighbor's dead. It was like being hit by a hammer.

I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you've never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.

People are dressing like they work in outdoor booths at the flea market. They are really dressing for the weather, and also knowing that when you go out in the morning, you don't know when you're going to be back.

It has sent a wave of terror through the community. That the raids were going on at the flea markets and grocery stores. They've all been eyewitness accounts as to these particular raids happening.

We're using every measure we can to help folks coming to the flea market arrive as safely and smoothly as possible. We do ask for people to be patient and be prepared for some delays.

We are still the same flea market, just a new location. And we are keeping our fingers crossed that we will have a lot of good weekend weather this year.

At the flea market we'll have a table where we try to sell donated items and we'll contribute that money to the scholarship fund. We'll also cook the hot dogs and hamburgers and help out with the concessions.

And the Sunday flea market on the green in High Falls, that's on our property, too.

Another one of our fantasies is that we'd like to make this area more active with ongoing flea markets and farmers markets so when people drive by they will see that there's activity in this town.

Flea got into rock later on in life, came up in jazz as a jazz trumpet player, and then got into punk rock, playing in Fear and stuff like that.

It was what we call a sword cane, ... She was unaware of it. She told us that she had bought it at a flea market.

Normally when you think of flea markets, you think of sweat socks and T-shirts. We're looking at young designers, art, photography, nothing mass-produced. We want to be cutting edge and unique.

During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'

This is an outdoor show that is open to all artists, flea market dealers, food vendors, civic organizations, commercial businesses, or anyone else who has an interest in the public.

This is prime allergy season for dogs. Seasonal allergies are starting, but it's also flea allergy time. This is perfect flea season because we had a mild winter and the fleas didn't die off.

They tried to get us a motel. We went and looked at it. It was a flea hole. We came back here.

a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat

You think 24-7 when you're a creative person. And I find pleasure in everything - if I'm in a flea market, I'm there on my downtime, but I'm also there searching for the collection. I don't separate the two.

That's one of the biggest things, especially on little puppies and kittens. They can even cause anemia. Sometimes, dogs or cats can develop an allergy to the flea saliva.

I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!' It's to say, 'I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?'

I like to sell and buy stuff at the flea market and put it online to sell. I'm just trying to pay my way through school.

I just loved her. She was like a flea out there, a little bug all over the floor that people couldn't get away from. She fits us. But now, I give here a little more freedom. Not many coaches would allow her to do what I do.

I don't like shopping, so I'll look online. I like going to the flea market at the Rose Bowl every once in a while. I like the same stores, Opening Ceremony and APC.

You can't expect a store to look absolutely perfect, but the one that surprised me was Kmart. Kmart isn't a flea market-type store. It needs to do a much better job in making its store more attractive to customers.

The court has spoken plainly that ignorance is no defense for flea markets which profit by turning a blind eye to piracy.

So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum