Classic Quotes

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

I think classic films are classic for a reason. It's always sketchy to redo one, especially if you're trying to make it contemporary. That's really just not the way to go.

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

I love cars, I have two classic cars of my own.

I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.

They're classic themes, which is why I think it's such a great story to look at again. The concept of being loyal to your friends, to the point where you'd even die for them, is a great subject.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish.

Alien is one of my favourite films. I'm a classic horror fan. It's a tough one for me, because I get scared quite easily.

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

There's something nice and valuable and wonderful about the suspense and the classic horror that doesn't just crutch on blood and the almost pornographic view of fear.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit.

I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

I'm thinking of Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music... there are too many to name really. And all the old classic ones like Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. That's brutal!

Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

I love Mickey Rourke. I think he's an all-American classic. He's great.

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it. Her character has distinct roots in classic Greek mythology.

I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way.

An education without a Bible education is no education.

She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

Ladies and Gentlemen this fellow combines the classic stylings of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp....that's right, boys and girls every where, your friend Pimpbot 5000!

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

I'm increasingly less interested in classic storylines and that arc that we have come to expect.

With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.

I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come.

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.

I love classic looks and I love glamour. I love being able to switch to a classic day to a really really nice glamorous look at night.