Classic famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.
-- Albert Camus -
I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.
-- Alexandr Dolgopolov -
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.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.
-- Alfred Kazin -
Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.
-- Alice Temperley -
New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
-- Anthony Weiner -
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.
-- Arthur Laffer -
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
-- Bear Grylls -
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
-- Bernard of Chartres -
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
-- Bill Bruford -
Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.
-- Brad Delson -
I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
-- Brett Favre -
I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.
-- Brooke Burns -
A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
-- Bruce Campbell -
Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.
-- Bruce Kovner -
I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There’s only so much you can wear.
-- C. Z. Guest -
I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
-- Caleb Landry Jones -
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
-- Cecilia Bartoli -
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.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
-- Charles Dickens -
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
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.
-- Clive James -
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.
-- Clive James -
Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.
-- Clive James -
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.
-- Clive James -
Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.
-- Clive James -
A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't
-- Clive James -
An education without a Bible education is no education.
-- Clive James -
During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.
-- David S. Goyer -
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
-- Dean Acheson -
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.
-- Dhani Jones -
It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.
-- Don Adams -
Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.
-- Don Pendleton -
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.
-- E. M. Forster -
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
-- Edith Wharton -
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
-- Emily Bronte -
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
-- Frances McDormand -
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.
-- George Steiner -
Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.
-- George Thorogood -
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.
-- Gertrude Stein -
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
-- Gracie Gold -
All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
I love Jennifer Aniston's style. She is streamlined and never overdone. And Demi Moore always looks classic, gorgeous and sophisticated.
-- Hoda Kotb -
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
-- Italo Calvino -
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
-- Italo Calvino -
My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal -
I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.
-- Janelle Monae -
I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.
-- Jessie Ware -
I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.
-- Jim Varney -
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.
-- John Bolton -
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
-- John Pilger -
I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own timelessness to them, classic type things, and then you go onto something new.
-- John Travolta -
'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.
-- Jon Landau -
I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.
-- Katharine McPhee -
A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.
-- Kenneth Turan -
He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
-- Lauren DeStefano -
I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.
-- Leon Bridges -
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.
-- Leonard Maltin -
Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
-- Liam Gallagher -
If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
-- Liev Schreiber -
All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
-- Mario Puzo -
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
-- Mark Twain -
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
-- Marlon Brando -
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
-- Max Eastman -
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
-- Michael Berryman -
Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.
-- Michael Pitt -
I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
-- Michel Patini -
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'
-- Miranda Cosgrove -
Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei -
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
-- Mohnish Pabrai -
I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.
-- Molly Haskell -
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
-- Mose Allison -
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
-- Mose Allison -
You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.
-- Nate Berkus -
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.
-- Ned Rorem -
I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.
-- Nicole Richie -
[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.
-- Norman Tebbit -
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.
-- Olivia Colman -
I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
-- Parker Stevenson -
Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.
-- Pete Wentz -
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
-- Peter Sellers
