Classics Quotes

154 quotes by 142 authors

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up? — Kanye West
The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics! — Keith Thibodeaux
Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or… — Oliver DeMille
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat. — Joe Bastianich
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help… — Evelyn Waugh
I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic. — Monique Lhuillier
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers… — Henry David Thoreau
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics. — Jean Paul Gaultier
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of… — Jorge Luis Borges
The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I… — Frances O'Connor
Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics. — Mark Skousen
We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. — Raymond Radiguet
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay
I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like… — Matt Mullenweg
Kate Spade has great feminine classics and I love her bags. Designs by Rebecca Taylor, BCBG and Herve Leger are sexy and fun, and they… — Katrina Bowden
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become… — Aloe Blacc
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early… — Russell Banks
School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing… — Enrico Colantoni
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. — Bill Condon

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