Classic Quotes

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!

It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.

It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

Do people trip over you?

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

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

Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?

You bloody silly fool!

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

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!

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

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

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

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

I think that Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs, like, a pump-up. And I think Jock Jams is a classic pump-up. Like before she starts working, she needs that.

We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

Shaken and not stirred.

A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.

I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.

Galactica has infinite possibilities. In fact, my character may be abnormal in the sense that she may be more independent than most of the women in classic space adventures.

I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

This could only happen in a technical college.

We don't come here for our health.

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

Being a fan of dance and a dancer, I love my classic dance movies.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.