Classic Quotes

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

So this is feminist corner then.

No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody.

I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There’s only so much you can wear.

Trifles make the sum of life.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.

I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.

I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

I think my style is classic - I like wearing jeans and a white button-up shirt.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

A great song will be great forever - it's timeless and classic in that way.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road.

No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream. However, the most classic American dessert of all might be the chocolate chip cookie.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

Publish and be damned.

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

April is the cruellest month.