“I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I walked along singing, for when I am happy I am always humming to myself like every man who has no friend… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.” — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics. — Jacob Lusk Copy Share Image
I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is… — Harley Viera-Newton Copy Share Image
“Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty.… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a… — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“And is not all of life material- based on the material- permeated by the material? Should not one learn, gladly, to utilize… — Elizabeth Winder 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
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always… — Homer Copy Share Image
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals. — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase. — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of… — Claude Calame Copy Share Image
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy” — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards." - Atticus Finch” — Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird Copy Share Image
Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way. — Daniel Breaker Copy Share Image
“It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh” — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I believe in classics. I like keeping it simple, whether its colours, cuts, or the outfits I wear. — Kubra Sait Copy Share Image
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
