Classic Quotes

815 Classic quotes by 616 unique authors

I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so… — Diane Ackerman
This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly… — Elizabeth Taylor
A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience… — Jean-Louis Barrault
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. — Alfred Kazin
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from… — Ned Rorem
Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India,… — Robert Tisserand
It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in… — Walt Disney
I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good… — Mikky Ekko
A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable. — Max Levchin
I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc. — Tommy Wiseau
A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman. — Kenneth Turan
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur. — Mohnish Pabrai
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a… — Robert Charles Wilson
How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so… — Michael Scott
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold... — George Lucas
I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is… — Dhani Jones
I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that… — John Galt
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. — George Steiner
I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they… — Tavis Smiley
Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right. — Diane von Furstenberg
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of… — Neil Gaiman
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A clever man commits no minor blunders. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing.… — Ellie Goulding

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