Classics Quotes

154 quotes by 142 authors

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for? — J M Coetzee
And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide… — Nick Hornby
We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire — Seth Grahame-Smith
The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole) — Ezra Pound
Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you… — Anne Rice
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library… — Italo Calvino
The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow. — Orson Scott Card
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock… — Jasper Fforde
One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of… — Elizabeth Berg
Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocativelyâ€¦ But it wasnâ€™t just intellectual experiences. They were… — Woody Allen
...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works-- groundbreaking,… — Libba Bray
When I was your age â€” about, ooh, a thousand years ago â€” I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor… — Mark Gatiss
And indeed it was, the arrow still protruding from its wet, grayish skin, humping its body along with incredible speed. A flick of its tail… — Cassandra Clare
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics — Coco Chanel
â€ŽAnd when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore;… — Seth Grahame-Smith
I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days? — Cassandra Clare
Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books. — Aldous Huxley

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