Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Moody

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

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.'

Robin Wright

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

Johan Bruyneel

We were up there in the Classics and the Tour of Spain as well.

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'.

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.

Amy Lowell

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

Scott Rudin

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

Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Charles Dickens

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Charles Dickens

We are so very 'umble.

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.

Rebecca Morgan

We are going with the newest technology available.

Robert Johnson

As long as there's no preference for adult, that's fine.

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.

Susan Orlean

I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.

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.

Francesca Lia Block

What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?

Christine Baranski

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Dave Duncan

He's someone you don't know. It's a concern. I'd like him here to see him throw and get in shape. I also understand sometimes things happen. But my preference would be that he be here.

Dick Cheney

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