Classics Quotes
154 quotes by 142 authors
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known…
— Robertson Davies
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I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places…
— Todd English
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I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.
— Tippi Hedren
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I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I…
— Shawn Johnson
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The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English…
— Jon Landau
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
— Stephen Leacock
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I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.
— Christian Louboutin
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
— Henry Miller
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I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school…
— James Patterson
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I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I…
— Vladimir Putin
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I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
— Dennis Quaid
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I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The…
— Rick Riordan
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I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.
— Richard Roeper
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather…
— A. N. Wilson
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an…
— William Faulkner
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I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend…
— Douglas Coupland
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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
— Lisa See
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In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can…
— C.S. Lewis
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