Classic Quotes

815 Classic quotes by 616 unique authors

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: â€œI 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
I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic. — Ashley Greene
My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre. — Jake Gyllenhaal
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. — Cyril Connolly
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic… — Francis Ford Coppola
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and… — Salvador Dali
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing. — Catherine Deneuve
Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a… — Zooey Deschanel
I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played… — Ani DiFranco
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. — Charles Dickens
April is the cruellest month. — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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