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Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs. — Johnny Ramone

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy. — William Friedkin

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions. — Gloria Swanson

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure. — Norman Tebbit

I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.' — Miranda Cosgrove

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species. — Prince Philip

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost. — Anthony Esolen

The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt. — Eric Weiner

Only connect! ... Only connect the prose and the passion. — E. M. Forster

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. — Leonard Maltin

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then? — Prince Philip

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best. — Courtney Love

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier. — Nina Simone

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do. — George Thorogood

Ishmael had the posture of a classic general; the intellect of a cab driver. — Jarrett McCall

You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one. — Nate Berkus

Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn. — Thomas Hardy

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs. — Prince Philip

I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in. — Padma Lakshmi

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic. — Nigel Kennedy

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard — Maud Hart Lovelace

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock. — Brett Favre

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd. — Ted Cruz

Like any classic videogame, the Hunt had simply reached a new, more difficult level. A new level often required an entirely new strategy. I — Ernest Cline

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition. — Gracie Gold

A way a lone a last a loved a long the - — James Joyce

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas. — Geoff Mulgan

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from. — Bear Grylls

I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era. — Fred Savage

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break. — Thomas Hardy

The mile has a classic symmetry ... It's a play in four acts. — John Landy

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously. — John Boyne

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

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza. — Clive James

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. — Elie Wiesel

I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba. — Yoenis Cespedes

Hi, I said, IN SCINTILLATING DIALOGUE REMINISCENT OF THE CLASSIC MOVIE CASABLANCA. — Nick Lake

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another! — Sophocles

We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is being an ass. — Natsuki Takaya

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it. — Liam Gallagher

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually. — Rob Zombie

A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death. — Rachel Kushner

Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend. — Tim Gunn

I don't really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch 'Adventure Time', 'The Amazing World of Gumball', and 'Looney Tunes' and old classic cartoons. — Ty Simpkins

it made me wonder whether the brothers karamazov would have ever come down to us as a classic if its title had been the karamzov brothers. — William Peter Blatty

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant. — Robert A. Heinlein

Can you tell the difference between them? — Prince Philip

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime. — Yelawolf

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead. — Jay Samit

She was classic Wyoming, that indiscriminate age between thirty and a hundred where the women find a comfort for themselves and just settle in. — Craig Johnson

If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas. — Jaime Camil

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time. — Mindy Kaling

The same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?" ... p982 — Leo Tolstoy

It's the witching hour once more-
When the Muse comes out to play.
He calls me through that magic door-
Where galaxies of worlds await! — Belle Whittington

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril. — Kenneth Tynan

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman

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

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't — Clive James

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does. — Kathy Valentine

Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later. — Shannon McKenna

Marx set forth a classic statement of inherent class antagonism on the market — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper. — Bill Buford

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza. — Molly Haskell

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means. — Marie Corelli

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines. — David Maraniss

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken — Beverley Cross

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen

Trifles make the sum of life. — Charles Dickens

But matters of the heart are not governed by time. - Thomas Allen, Jenny Kissed Me! — Thomas Allen

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. — Gertrude Stein

I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of. — P. J. Soles

Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style. — Lubov Azria

I love the cowbell. I think it's awesome. My family got the cowbell app on their iPhones. It's a classic part of ski racing. — Lindsey Vonn

There is a classic Zen saying that a wave cannot be separated from the ocean, nor can the ocean be separated from a wave. — David Levy

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different. — Andy Biersack

It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor. — Julia Child

And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world — Henry James

Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not. — Liz Becker

The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty. — Sinclair Lewis

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out. — Bobbi Brown

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

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

Murray Harris has observed: One of the classic Christian paradoxes is that freedom leads to slavery and slavery leads to freedom. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed. — Alexandr Dolgopolov

The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws - which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior. — Robert M. Pirsig

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself. — Anne, Queen Of Great Britain

I love seeing other channels counterprogram the Super Bowl. PBS: DAMN RIGHT we're airing a new 'Masterpiece Classic'! Fuck off, sports! — Tara Ariano

I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home. — Candice Olson

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. — Tori Amos

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! — Prince Philip

The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo. — Steve Erickson

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way. — Marissa Mayer

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. — Bruce Campbell

Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience. — C.J.S. Hayward

He can't face you on an adult level, so he comes along and fucks up your truck. Classic payback method for the tiny-dick type. — Nora Roberts

the middle child's classic tendency to withdraw. — Megan Marshall

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies. — Nick D'Aloisio