Classic Quotes

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

Reader, I married him.

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.

I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.

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

April is the cruellest month.

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

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

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids.

I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic.

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.

I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.

During my career I’ve enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

Kevin Garnett did the classic hold me back but fall away at the same time.

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense - the only real 12-cylinder engine - is Catherine Zeta-Jones.

This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

And what exotic part of the world do you come from?

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

That's more than you know about anything else then.

I usually listen to classic rock and roll.