Classic Quotes
815 Classic quotes by 616 unique authors
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I like to use really basic or classic colors, things that people have seen over and over and over again. Primary colors, at least in…
— Alex Prager
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For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all…
— Mitchell Hurwitz
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I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by…
— Yelawolf
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
— Yelawolf
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The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a…
— William Cowper
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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
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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
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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
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A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.
— Alfred Kazin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.
— Max Levchin
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I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.
— Tommy Wiseau
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A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.
— Kenneth Turan
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Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
— Mohnish Pabrai
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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
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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
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold...
— George Lucas
Who Wrote These Classic Quotes
616 authors contributed a total of 815 Classic Quotes, led by these top contributors: