Classic Quotes

I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to reel projectors. I do have a big screen TV, though.

You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

I love the cowbell. I think it's awesome. My family got the cowbell app on their iPhones. It's a classic part of ski racing.

For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

I definitely see myself making classic R&B records with somewhat of a trendy vibe to it. I definitely wouldn't say trap.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.

I believe in classic ideas. They are timeless. They are forever. There are many fads in management.

Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

I'm into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts - everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I've got a Chicago one worth $100.

De Niro is a classic example of somebody who is iconic and who sort of effortlessly puts actors at ease the moment you meet him. I think it's also just something that he innately does with people.

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'

For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic.

[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add jerk to it as well.

You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It’s what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.

I think timelessness is a very important factor in whatever I do. That's what makes a classic.

At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were.

It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

I love Ralph Lauren, just as a designer. I still think he could make some better sizes with his clothes, but I like the idea of his classic American style.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can’t throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins’ greatest hits and chucked it at him.

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

I want to be seen as a classic model.

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.

Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.