Classics Quotes

154 quotes by 142 authors

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. — Richard Strauss
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. — Erik Larson
The classics can console. But not enough. — Derek Walcott
It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics. — L'Wren Scott
You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long… — Todd Edwards
Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. — Charles Guggenheim
I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own. — Rudolf Flesch
You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for… — John Milius
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out… — Louise Mensch
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced… — Elinor Lipman
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can… — George Andrew Olah
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the inevitability of war… — Morihei Ueshiba
Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics. — Magnus Carlsen
My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on… — Vivienne Westwood
I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten… — Sahndra Fon Dufe
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had… — Igor Stravinsky
For me accessories create and define a woman's personal style. The bag she carries, the watch on her wrist, her jewelry, her sunglasses, her shoes… — Ralph Lauren
The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better. — Marion Ross

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