Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Rudin

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

John Oates

We get a lot of the new songs in, but we play a lot of the old classics and even some stuff that people don't expect,

John Krasinski

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.'

Rick Moody

writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it

Amy Lowell

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

Trofim Lysenko

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

Trofim Lysenko

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.

Lauren Tarshis

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Thom Browne

I do love the provocative side of my collection, but I also like the classics - the simpler skirts and the sweater sets and the shirtdresses. And I always love to see girls in jackets and trousers.

C. S. Lewis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Charles Dickens

Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Joseph Farrell

Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,

David Mitchell

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

Dave Barry

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Dave Barry

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

Dave Barry

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

Dave Barry

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

David Quammen

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

Rebecca Morgan

We are going with the newest technology available.

Maria Muldaur

I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.

Orlando Bloom

Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

Larry Ellison

You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely.

James Lindsay

If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better.

Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Alfred North Whitehead

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

Mark Thompson

Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery.

Bud Grebey

Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work.

Dick Cheney

My preference would be to deploy them as warriors, (rather than peacekeepers),

Alan Alda

I have a strong preference for being alive.