“So does a whole world, with all of its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
Like every actor I too have some 'classics' in the closet, but I am not keen on adding to that collection. — Mahima Chaudhry 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 sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
“At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each… — Elizabeth Gaskell 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
Usually, my sets are a combination of what I love, what everyone loves; some classics, some new stuff and a couple of… — Jax Jones Copy Share Image
I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my… — Rick Riordan 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
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
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
'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
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics. — Aarti Sequeira 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
“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers… — James A. Secord Copy Share Image
“You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. Floating on… — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 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
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
“Do you think that I am a machine? That I can bear it? Do you think because I'm poor, plain, obsure, and… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“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
