Classic Quotes · Page 10

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

— Prince Philip

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

— Cheryl Strayed

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

— Zadie Smith

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

— Mark Twain

Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

— Adolf Hitler

I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.

— Clive Owen

That's more than you know about anything else then.

— Prince Philip

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

— Charles Dickens

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

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

— Max Levchin

I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

— Andrew Davies

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

— Stephen Decatur

I like listening to classic rock. I know that all Cafe Tacvba members have different influences and sometimes they show and other…

— Joselo Rangel

For men, it's about finding the perfect shoe or the perfect pants that will last you through the years. That's how I…

— Lykke Li

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware…

— Sylvia Plath

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

— George Steiner

Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a…

— William Goldman

Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years.…

— Roger Ross Williams

I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually…

— Nate Berkus

The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as…

— Brian Cox

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study…

— James Wolcott

Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of…

— George Packer

I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of…

— Lauren Oliver

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most…

— Washington Irving

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing…

— Francine Pascal

To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like…

— Curnonsky

I did the original Robotron game back in 1982. To me it's still one of the classic 2D games as far as…

— Eugene Jarvis

This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum…

— George Greenstein

If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence'…

— Brian Johnson

It was in D.C., and I couldn't believe how they were just three guys, but they sounded like six guys. It was…

— Rich Fulcher

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

— Anonymous

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

— Prince Philip

That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

— Prince Philip

God bless classic rock. It's been very good to me; I'll tell you that.

— Steve Lukather

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

— Parker Stevenson

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.

— Prince Philip