“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
“Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics. — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.” — B.R. Myers Copy Share Image
“So it is that in our world hopes are thwarted at every turn and the people's lot is always pain.” — Royall Tyler Copy Share Image
I saw 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'Little Mermaid,' 'The Lion King,' 'Mary Poppins' - I saw all of those before I was… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Some of my favorites are the classics like 'What They Do,' 'Proceed,' 'You Got Me,' and 'Silent Treatment.' — Black Thought Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is playing the classics, and I am going to do some huge Shakespeare roles. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte,… — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around.… — Robert Stromberg Copy Share Image
As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on… — Waris Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
I shouldn't be surprised if John Cleese's scripts don't become set texts for examinations-they're classics. And I can't tell you how service… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
“You know it will be sad to be left alone, utterly alone, and to have not even anything to regret - nothing,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Zeus in his sphere of power, Aphrodite in hers, are irresistible. To be a god is to be totally absorbed in the… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image
“Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine.… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent - Dear to the Loves,… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Vera incessu patuit dea. (The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)” — Virgil Copy Share Image
I like a lot of movies. I like all types of genres. I like the classics - comedy, action. — Danny Green Copy Share Image
“Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.” — Pat Conroy 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
“Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen: Verweile doch! du bist so schön! Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen, Dann will ich gern… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
