Classics Quotes
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Classics Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
— Jean Rhys
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
... 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 mymy
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
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
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
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
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
— Sophocles
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
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
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
