Classic Quotes

This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it.

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

Am I no a bonny fighter?

I had a classic case of what people call "seeker's disease." That was part of my journey, but now, meaning is like a secret that's revealing itself moment by moment, day by day.

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

I love fashion because it can change to suit your mood. I'm very drawn to classic silhouettes, menswear-inspired pieces, and anything that feels a little French. I'm also inspired by Brit girl style.

I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.

I love making observations. That one is a classic example.

We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

I love, I absolutely, love the Office and Curb your Enthusiasm. Those are just classic shows.

I flipped the good doctor the bird. Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall. "What is it with you and giving people the finger?" "What? It's a classic.

I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.

You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

Earth has not anything to show more fair.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.