“I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I see… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
“I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?" "That is so." "Pity. Pity. You've missed a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that… — The Ek Copy Share Image
“A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He… — Lucretius 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
“[...] he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There's very few comedy sci-fis that have worked for me other than the classics, like 'Red Dwarf' and, of course, 'Hitchhiker's Guide.' — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?" Nothing happened to the classics-but… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of like the old-timey Christmas songs, the classics, a lot of it is very vocal. A lot… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
“You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?” — Homer Copy Share Image
“Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard that lawyers’ children, on seeing their parents in court in the heat of argument, get the wrong idea: they think… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'.” — J.R.R. Tolkien 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
There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There… — Jane Austen 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
“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
“The thing is, what I’m tryin‘ to say is— they do get on a lot better without me, I can’t help them… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I wondered if anybody had ever called her “ma’am,” or “Miss Mayella” in her life; probably not, as she took offense to… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
