Classic Quotes

815 Classic quotes by 616 unique authors

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as… — Jon Stewart
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.… — Sylvia Plath
I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the… — Sloane Crosley
Wagnerâ€™s music is better than it sounds. — Mark Twain
But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross,… — Hunter S. Thompson
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it. — Sylvia Plath
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all… — Sylvia Plath
John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrimâ€™s Progress, said â€œYou have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot… — Joel Osteen
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? — Mark Twain
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. — Sylvia Plath
There is a classic moment in â€˜The Sun Also Risesâ€™ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you… — Sylvia Plath
I didnâ€™t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have… — Sylvia Plath
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of… — Sylvia Plath
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. — Margaret Mitchell
Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along… — Eoin Colfer
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them. — Sylvia Plath
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. — Sylvia Plath
Hale." Kat sighed. "The headmaster's car? Really? That's not to cliched for you?" What can I say?" He shrugged. "I'm an old-fashioned guy. Besides, it's… — Ally Carter

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