Top 401 Classics Quotes & Sayings

I'd read a classics book on the bus when I was at York.

The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel, Shelley and Baudelaire, Marx and Freud in the drugstore. Instead, they insist on recognition of the fact that the classics have left the mausoleum and come to life again, that people are just so much more educated. True, but 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.

As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on the presentation of moral issues in various Greek and Roman tragedies.

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing all sorts of stuff that I've never played before while the mind - and the body - still functions.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

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

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

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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

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

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.

After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.

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

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

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.

I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love.

Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.

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

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

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

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.

I'm not into trends, but more enduring classics and styles.

I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because, um, the classics hold up so well.

Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics.

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

School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

I like the classics!

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

You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

My songs are classics.

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

England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.

I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.

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

I was raised on the classics - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.

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

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

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

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.

Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries of life. It shows one that there are really no new plots.

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

Not everybody has things that become classics.

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

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

I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain.

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

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

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

The classics can console. But not enough.

I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college.

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason. I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.

Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.

Restoration is to some extent part of the digital age. These days, if you re-issue a movie in theaters or on Blu-ray, it has to be in high-quality condition: You have to restore. We plan a Paris cinema theater dedicated totally to classics. If we think there's an audience, we will release classics in theaters. People will discover that it's worth going to the cinema to see great movies of the past in perfect condition. I believe a lot in that.

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