The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics. — Jacob Lusk Copy Share Image
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase. — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of… — Claude Calame Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of… — Amber Le Bon Copy Share Image
The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and… — Tim Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
'Basic Black with Pearls' contains overt references to Virginia Woolf and covert ones to feminist classics like Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“You are going, Jane?" "I am going, sir." "You are leaving me?" "Yes." "You will not come? You will not be my… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“Well that ain’t so. You get babies from each other. But there’s this man, too—he has all these babies just waitin‘ to… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“And is not all of life material- based on the material- permeated by the material? Should not one learn, gladly, to utilize… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag.… — Abbey Clancy Copy Share Image
When it comes to shoes, you don't really need more than a few pairs of wing tips or oxfords. They're classics. And… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
I downloaded a Kylie Minogue album and it had all the classics like 'I Should Be So Lucky' and 'Locomotion.' I'm not… — Laura Whitmore Copy Share Image
“But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s death. Never again will… — Homer Copy Share Image
Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema.… — Larenz Tate Copy Share Image
There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I have introduced my daughter to the literary classics and landmark Bengali films. I want her to be well-versed in English but… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort… — Barbara Rosenblat Copy Share Image
Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
