Quotes about Classics

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them. Votes: 3

Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics. Votes: 3

The Midnight Palace is a great place on the web for the very best on Hollywood Classics! Votes: 3

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase. Votes: 3

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. Votes: 3

Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole. Votes: 3

Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat. Votes: 3

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even. Votes: 3

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole) Votes: 3

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques. Votes: 3

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. Votes: 3

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity. Votes: 3

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. Votes: 3

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears. Votes: 3

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular. Votes: 3

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular Votes: 3

I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. Votes: 3

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know? Votes: 3

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries. Votes: 3

I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil. Votes: 3

It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced degrees in Classics and in possession of excellent manners, can disappoint you as profoundly as anyone else. Votes: 3

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them. Votes: 3

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics. Votes: 1

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. Votes: 1

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. Votes: 1

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. Votes: 1

Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends. Votes: 1

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Votes: 1

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships. Votes: 1

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics. Votes: 1

If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate. Votes: 1

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers. Votes: 1

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. Votes: 1

Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of stories, and they give us unforgettable movies with heart and depth and the resonance of classics. Votes: 1

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much. Votes: 1

As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence. Votes: 1

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence. Votes: 1

I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love. Votes: 1

Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it. Votes: 1

I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they're beautiful things when they're done. Votes: 1

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.' Votes: 1

My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around. And my dad was a huge fan of Ray Harryhausen. One of our neighbors, who went on to win several Academy Awards, was close friends with my dad. His name is Phil Tippett. Votes: 1

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. Votes: 1

Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove of comics included gems such as 'Little Lulu,' 'Frontline Combat' and 'Classics Illustrated.' But the works that stood head and shoulders above the rest were Carl Barks's 'Donald Duck' and 'Uncle Scrooge' comics from the 1940s through the 1960s. Votes: 1

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me. Votes: 1

The classics can console. But not enough. Votes: 0

Not everybody has things that become classics. Votes: 0

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics. Votes: 0

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics. Votes: 0

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire Votes: 0

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason. Votes: 0

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow. Votes: 0

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics Votes: 0

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up? Votes: 0

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics. Votes: 0

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics. Votes: 0

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics. Votes: 0

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food. Votes: 0

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. Votes: 0

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley. Votes: 0

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? Votes: 0

You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes. Votes: 0

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. Votes: 0

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. Votes: 0

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them. Votes: 0

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. Votes: 0

I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics. Votes: 0

Oh, when I was a kid, I was raised up with all the Disney classics. Votes: 0

In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics. Votes: 0

I grew up on 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. A legacy with not one but multiple timeless classics. Votes: 0

We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. Votes: 0

Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics. Votes: 0

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song. Votes: 0

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. Votes: 0

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own. Votes: 0

Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you Votes: 0

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days? Votes: 0

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought. Votes: 0

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. Votes: 0

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV. Votes: 0

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. Votes: 0

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom. Votes: 0

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that. Votes: 0

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. Votes: 0

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them. Votes: 0

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures. Votes: 0

I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic. Votes: 0

The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics. Votes: 0

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. Votes: 0

A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. Votes: 0

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for? Votes: 0

I did lots of Shakespeare and classics, and I just kind of became that person. I was a bit of a snob. Votes: 0

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. Votes: 0

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way. Votes: 0

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. Votes: 0

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better. Votes: 0

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well, especially once I got serious about writing. Votes: 0

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought Votes: 0

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. Votes: 0

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics. Votes: 0

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest. Votes: 0

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books. Votes: 0

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them. Votes: 0

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. Votes: 0

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people. Votes: 0

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy. Votes: 0

I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball. Votes: 0

When I tour with the new album, I still do the classics, and I love the atmosphere it creates with the whole audience singing along. Votes: 0

I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good. Votes: 0

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight. Votes: 0

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. Votes: 0

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a long time. Votes: 0

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics. Votes: 0

I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years Votes: 0

There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast. Votes: 0

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies. Votes: 0

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business. Votes: 0

I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless. Votes: 0

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky. Votes: 0

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them. Votes: 0

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics. Votes: 0

My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It's the only bag I use! Votes: 0

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul. Votes: 0

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams. Votes: 0

We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's. Votes: 0

A woman's wardrobe shouldn't change every six months. You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics. Votes: 0

Off the court, I tend to stick to the classics, but I like to have fun with color and accessories. I'm from Spain, so colors are important for me. Votes: 0

Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian. Votes: 0

Kate Spade has great feminine classics and I love her bags. Designs by Rebecca Taylor, BCBG and Herve Leger are sexy and fun, and they work on my body. Votes: 0

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about. Votes: 0

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on. Votes: 0

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making. Votes: 0

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most. Votes: 0

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in. Votes: 0

Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth. Votes: 0

My favourite designer is Mulberry - their bags are lovely, but their clothes are amazing, I don't think people realise. I love D&G, Fendi, Moschino, Chanel, Armani - all the classics! Votes: 0

I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback. Votes: 0

I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally. Votes: 0

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse. Votes: 0

You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously about reforming the Arabic that we use today. Votes: 0

I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators. Votes: 0

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. Votes: 0

Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today. Votes: 0

The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play. Votes: 0

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics. Votes: 0

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think. Votes: 0

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever. Votes: 0

My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination. Votes: 0

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it. Votes: 0

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues. Votes: 0

I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel. Votes: 0

I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics. Votes: 0

I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street. Votes: 0

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life. Votes: 0

To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well. Votes: 0

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations. Votes: 0

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you. Votes: 0

My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York. Votes: 0

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. Votes: 0