Classic Quotes

815 Classic quotes by 616 unique authors

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Unknown Author
If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there… — Alexander Kotov
Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million… — Tom Kite
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music. — Dwight Yoakam
The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does. — Kathy Valentine
It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real. — Kanye West
BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be… — LaVell Edwards
Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all… — Clive James
Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James
Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza. — Clive James
A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't — Clive James
His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of… — Clive James
It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired… — Clive James
The entrÃ©e wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place. — Clive James
The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of The Spectator… — Clive James
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff. — Clive James
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James
I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates...… — Clive James
BeyoncÃ© and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen. — Clive James
One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it. — Clive James

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