“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur." If any man cannot feel the power… — Horace Copy Share Image
I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“My friend Patroclus, whom I loved, is dead. I loved him more than any other comrade. I loved him like my head,… — Homer Copy Share Image
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because… — Arthur Cohn Copy Share Image
My favourite designer is Mulberry - their bags are lovely, but their clothes are amazing, I don't think people realise. I love… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
“I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burned hair, old gowns,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think people that came out originally, like 2Pac, Biggie, Snoop Dogg,, and even T.I. and Ludacris, they were original with their… — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
I do love the provocative side of my collection, but I also like the classics - the simpler skirts and the sweater… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I liked the sort of YA classics. I loved 'The Chronicles of Narnia.' I loved 'The Chronicles of Prydain' by Lloyd Alexander,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic,… — Michael Beck Copy Share Image
“In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has… — Roger D. Woodard Copy Share Image
My husband is a graduate of two Ivy League universities - with a degree in Classics! - and he sounds like a… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm a little old-school in that I think there's some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession.… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously?' he said, pushing the lift… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Federal law, implemented by the Federal Communications Commission, helped kill network broadcasts of Scooby-Doo, Bugs Bunny and their modern equivalents, while effectively… — Michael O'Rielly Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I love a lot of comedy movies. I think I fell in love with comedy when I was younger. My brother and… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs… — Alexa Ray Joel Copy Share Image
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one… — Richard Haynes Copy Share Image
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“There is no light. I don't feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out saving people's lives.… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
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