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Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics. — Aarti Sequeira

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics. — Liev Schreiber

So does a whole world, with all of its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star. — Charles Dickens

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. — Bill Condon

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics. — John B. S. Haldane

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people. — Christian Louboutin

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking. — Elton Trueblood

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already. — Mary Stewart

I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances."
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid. — Leila Rasheed

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. — Henry David Thoreau

You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes. — M. Night Shyamalan

Because what you read matters. — Penguin Classics

It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh — A.A. Milne

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly — Leo Tolstoy

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. — Charles Guggenheim

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known — Oscar Wilde

I wish I had done everything on earth with you — F Scott Fitzgerald

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. The shark is gone. — Peter Benchley

I like the classics! — Greg Kinnear

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food. — Tom Colicchio

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool? — Lindsey Davis

Time, which sees all things, has found you out. — Sophocles

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — Mary Shelley

Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long! — Charlotte Bronte

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. — Jane Austen

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics — Coco Chanel

I am going to stand against him now, though his hands are like flame, though his hands are like flame, and his heart like the shining of iron. — Homer

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

When I tour with the new album, I still do the classics, and I love the atmosphere it creates with the whole audience singing along. — Bonnie Tyler

Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart. — E. M. Forster

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker. — Rebecca Goldstein

Vera incessu patuit dea.
(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.) — Virgil

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday? — E.A. Bucchianeri

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it, — Emily Dickinson

Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence? — Oswald Chambers

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships. — John C. Maxwell

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought. — John Stuart Mill

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase. — Linda Grant

I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics. — Mickey Cochrane

Read books. As often as you can. Mostly classics. — Maura Kelly

Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends. — Tabatha Coffey

It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged. — Lim Thean Soo

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them. — Alfred Hitchcock

The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics! — Keith Thibodeaux

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans. — Italo Calvino

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song. — Frank Caliendo

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials — Jean Rhys

Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang — Lao-Tzu

Oh, when I was a kid, I was raised up with all the Disney classics. — Pierre Coffin

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In the infinitesimal glow of the stars,
the trees and flowers were strewing
their cool odos. There was no moon. — Sylvia Plath

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices — Homer

... but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. — George Orwell

I always loved that boy as if he'd been my
my
my own grandfather. — Charles Dickens

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm. — Daniel Defoe

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley. — Caroline Lawrence

This is fan fiction, but it's the fan fiction of a classical scholar who knows his stuff, even if he is a touch irreverent and unorthodox. — Sarah Warning Potentially Off-Topic

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224) — William Shakespeare

I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic. — Monique Lhuillier

Off the court, I tend to stick to the classics, but I like to have fun with color and accessories. I'm from Spain, so colors are important for me. — Tommy Hilfiger

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. — Richard Attenborough

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. — B.R. Myers

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? — William Makepeace Thackeray

Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you — Nas

You are a curse in my life! — Charles Perrault

Flounder, flounder, in the sea, Come, I pray thee, here to me; For my wife, good Ilsabil, Wills not as I'd have her will. — HarperPerennial Classics

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball. — Nolan Bushnell

No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her
afterwards. - Atticus Finch — Harper Lee

Like a car that's old enough to be old but not old enough to be a classic, it would be years before people would again appreciate the old town square. — K. Martin Beckner

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden. — Aesop

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while. — Becky Watson

Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil) — Callimachus

but she studied classics, the most pointless subject in the university. — Natasha Pulley

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way. — Daniel Breaker

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom. — M. Night Shyamalan

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. — Zora Neale Hurston

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures. — Tom Hanks

I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics. — Tippi Hedren

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them. — J. Oswald Sanders

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner

The promise, therefore, was given, and must be performed. — Jane Austen

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes — Sophocles

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics. — Harvey Korman

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better. — Marion Ross

Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Even Tolstoy is an insignificant shadow if he takes a stroll with Anna Karenina. — Elena Ferrante

I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good. — Gail Carriger

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer. — The Ek

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never. — Walter Scott

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. — Clifton Fadiman

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them. — Rachel Stevens

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing. — Aeschylus

To Jane Austen, for making romance novels classics and keepers for generations. — Mary Balogh