“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
I like all kinds of music, be it old Hindi movie songs or English classics. — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
“Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen: Verweile doch! du bist so schön! Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen, Dann will ich gern… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the ceremony known as afternoon tea” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any… — Marion Ross Copy Share Image
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' -… — Lucas Grabeel Copy Share Image
Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it… — Sahndra Fon Dufe Copy Share Image
I went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years and read all the classics by authors like Victor Hugo and Guy… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work.… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“You know it will be sad to be left alone, utterly alone, and to have not even anything to regret - nothing,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of like the old-timey Christmas songs, the classics, a lot of it is very vocal. A lot… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
“She had come to that state where the horror of the universe and its smallness are both visible at the same time—the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I tought how tragic it would be if you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth will… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Whoa, son,” said Atticus. “Nobody’s about to make you go anywhere but to bed pretty soon. I’m just going over to tell… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I… — Felicia Johnson Copy Share Image
I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.” — B.R. Myers Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“So it is that in our world hopes are thwarted at every turn and the people's lot is always pain.” — Royall Tyler Copy Share Image
I saw 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'Little Mermaid,' 'The Lion King,' 'Mary Poppins' - I saw all of those before I was… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
