“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
“Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit?… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years and read all the classics by authors like Victor Hugo and Guy… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“but both their minds tending to the same point—one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be… — Emily Brontë 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
“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
“Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?' 'I should think they could,' said Moomintoll.… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we had our reunion tours in the '90s was the unexpectedness of how the music had gone, that… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
“There is something in expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
“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
“- Ay! Thornton o' Marlborough Mill, as we call him. - He is one of the masters you are striving with, is… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“There is something inn expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“You're on your own little quest, an there's a bit of Frodo Baggins in you, and a bit of Verne's Paganel, and… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I love 'Jungle Book' and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of… — Luanne Rice 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
I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and… — Alice Lowe 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
“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
“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
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work.… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
