Classic Quotes · Page 23

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales,…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I've heard people ask, What's so sacred about a classic books that you can't change it for the modern child? Nothing is…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

— Mark Twain

Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.

— Jordan Spieth

The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably…

— Edmund White

Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years,…

— George Brandis

I love Mickey Rourke. I think he's an all-American classic. He's great.

— Bridget Everett

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the…

— Sylvia Plath

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the…

— Simon Sinek

Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare…

— Bruce Lee

'CLUE' is a spin on the classic board game. It uses the original characters and weapons, but it goes even further in…

— Sterling Beaumon

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

— Jim Varney

Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.

— P. G. Wodehouse

Can you tell the difference between them?

— Prince Philip

I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.

— Padma Lakshmi

It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the…

— Dannii Minogue

VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.

— Eddie Trunk

I don't like the word ['classic']. It makes you think we didn't do any work.

— Ralph Lauren

Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big…

— Alexander Payne

I think that Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs, like, a pump-up. And I think Jock Jams is a classic pump-up. Like before she…

— Abbi Jacobson

The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of…

— Arthur Demarest

To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to…

— Elaine Dundy

BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000…

— LaVell Edwards

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want…

— Mark Twain

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on,…

— James Nesbitt