Classics Quotes · Page 2

The classics can console. But not enough.

— Derek Walcott

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics.

— Aarti Sequeira

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.

— Caroline Lawrence

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Calvino was not a writer of hits; he was a writer of classics.

— William Weaver

You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

— Powers Boothe

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

— Charlotte Rae

I like all kinds of music, be it old Hindi movie songs or English classics.

— Dimple Kapadia

“If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only…

— Italo Calvino

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

Like every actor I too have some 'classics' in the closet, but I am not keen on adding to that collection.

— Mahima Chaudhry

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

— Stephen Leacock

My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag.…

— Jane Levy

I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal…

— Lisa Lutz

Doing the classics is always nice because it's a part of the archive, and that's what people love to hear, and I…

— Mya

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.

— Alice Ripley

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as…

— Charles Hazlewood

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

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them…

— Italo Calvino

“Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to…

— Alexei Panshin

Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact,…

— Bryan Cranston

Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and…

— Alexa Chung

Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don't think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I…

— Naseeruddin Shah

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a…

— John Green

“A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He…

— Lucretius

“Whoa, son,” said Atticus. “Nobody’s about to make you go anywhere but to bed pretty soon. I’m just going over to tell…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I…

— Felicia Johnson

“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I…

— Mary Karr

“1 )Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find…

— Italo Calvino

“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There…

— Jane Austen

“There were a few middle-aged and even elderly women in the train, their silver-wiry hair and wrinkled faces, scourged by time and…

— Thomas Hardy

“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

I'm not into trends, but more enduring classics and styles.

— J. J. Redick

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

“Move thy tongue, For silence is a sign of discontent.”

— Elizabeth Cary

“It often gives a lady a pleasure to giver her lover a pang”

— Arnold Haultain

I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.

— Martha MacCallum

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

— Kanye West

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

— L'Wren Scott

“And I realise now, more than ever, that I have lost all my best years!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky