Quotes on Classic

Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

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.