Top 22 Shabby Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Shabby Quotes from famous people such as Trish Goff, Willa Cather, Kirsten Dunst, Eve Torres, Jami Attenberg, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

When I started modeling, all I really wanted to get was

When I started modeling, all I really wanted to get was a Shabby Chic couch.
Trish Goff
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather
I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino – he’s my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne – Pedro Almodovar wouldn’t be too shabby. There are so many good directors, but those are some of my favorites.
Kirsten Dunst
I would say my most disappointing moment was not competing in a match even though I was Divas Champion at ‘WrestleMania XXVII.’ Although, I did get to be a part of a fun backstage segment with Stone Cold, the Rock, and Mae Young… not too shabby!
Eve Torres
In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists’ lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.
Jami Attenberg
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden
I read Gide’s ‘The Immoralist’ over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It’s written with such simplicity and dread, and the desert, the shabby colonial world, is brought right into your consciousness without being over-explained.
Lawrence Osborne
The band broke up because I couldn’t bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
Sid Vicious
I’m pretty proud of my fastball. I can throw a screwball. It’s not as accurate, and I don’t have the velocity like I do with my fastball, but I think my fastball is not too shabby.
Kylie Bunbury
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I’d been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
M. J. Hyland
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
Edward Dahlberg
Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it’s the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.
Martin Parr
In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy – Ken Singleton – Flanny, and Cakes – the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer – were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse.
Jane Leavy
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden
We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
Phil Collins
Bath was dusty and a little shabby when we moved here. It did look its age and you felt its history in its streets and buildings and little alleyways. The sense of the past was palpable. There were some bad modern buildings but there was a patina of age.
Ken Loach
I’m not on chef level, but I’d make a good line cook. That’s not too shabby.
Jon Favreau
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that’s about how much I love my fans.
Rick Springfield
Comedy did a lot of things for me. I mean, ‘SNL’? Not too bad. Not too shabby with this comedy thing. I have really worked on my comedy and really upped it some notches.
Jay Pharoah
To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.
Maria Callas
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it’s better than a new one.
Willa Cather
My house is very traditional. And I love ‘shabby chic.’ It’s a very homey-cosy vibe. We spend a lot of time in the kitchen, actually; maybe my kids will be doing their homework or that kind of thing when they get home from school. I love my kitchen.
Britney Spears