Classics Quotes

154 quotes by 142 authors

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
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
I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics. — Tippi Hedren
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
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
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. — Stephen Leacock
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
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. — Marshall McLuhan
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. — Henry Miller
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
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
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
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
I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV. — Richard Roeper
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
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
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
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
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
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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