By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days? — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Katherine Parkinson has got a classics degree from Cambridge yet is an idiot - in the best possible way. — Alex Horne Copy Share Image
Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time. — John Kani Copy Share Image
You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte,… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
“Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact,… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don't think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around.… — Robert Stromberg Copy Share Image
I shouldn't be surprised if John Cleese's scripts don't become set texts for examinations-they're classics. And I can't tell you how service… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
“You aren’t really a nigger-lover, then, are you?” “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody… I’m hard put, sometimes—baby,… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“As Tom Robinson gave his testimony, it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world.… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“This preoccupation with the classics was the happiest thing that could have befallen me. It gave me a standard of values. To… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“The man seemed not to have heard him. ‘At this life-giving time of the year, Professor Scrooge,’ said the pastor, clicking his… — Ashley Elizabeth Blair Tetzlaff Copy Share Image
Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always… — Homer Copy Share Image
I grew up on 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. A legacy with not one but multiple timeless classics. — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
“But vilifying those we love always alienates us from them to a certain extent. Idols should not be touched: the gilding comes… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Along with 'Wet Hot American Summer' and 'The Room,' 'Lebowski' belongs in the canon of nouveau cult classics. — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
I have something like 10,000 songs on my phone, everything from Madonna to Radiohead to you name it. And, of course, I've… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
The 'Classics Illustrated' series was an excellent primer in literature, and I also really enjoyed Zachary Hamby's mythology books for teens. — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
I love soundtracks. I used to have three iPod classics: one with regular music, one with soundtracks, and one with demos on… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song. — Frank Caliendo Copy Share Image
“She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
“No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards." - Atticus Finch” — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy” — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh” — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
