Classic Quotes

I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

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.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

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.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.