Classic Quotes

815 Classic quotes by 616 unique authors

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath
She got to you, too, huh?" I said, sliding onto the bench seat across from him. "Actually, I called her." Luca grinned. "I'm vomiting from… — Rachel Vincent
I love making observations. That one is a classic example. — Stephen Colbert
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans. — Italo Calvino
Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool… — Alexandra Adornetto
I flipped the good doctor the bird. Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall. "What is it with you and… — Sylvia Day
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. — Arthur Conan Doyle
. . .in August in Mississippi thereâ€™s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly thereâ€™s a foretaste of fall, itâ€™s… — William Faulkner
Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really… — Pete Wentz
If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is… — Gertrude Stein
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant. — Robert A. Heinlein
The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book… — William Goldman
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is… — Simon Winchester
Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are… — Stephen Jay Gould
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon… — Yelawolf
I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about… — Yoenis Cespedes
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world.… — Alison Gopnik
I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments. — Joseph DeRisi
The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas. — Geoff Mulgan

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