Classic Quotes

• Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  

  William Goldman
  • Fool
  • Victim
  • Asia

• Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Determined
  • Synonym
  • Narcotics

• My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Influence
  • Classic
  • Tails

• Our industry classic music has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Industry

• My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.

  

  Estelle
  • Style
  • Classic
  • Meets

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • God
  • Sports
  • Boys

• Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

  

  Nick D'Aloisio
  • Internet
  • Classic
  • Yahoo

• They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Opera
  • Formulas
  • Soap

• I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Long
  • Film
  • Chance

• 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.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
  • Classic
  • Composer
  • Baroque

• The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Genius
  • Freud
  • Coffeehouse

• One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Art
  • Challenges
  • Relevant

• There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

  

  Sean Bean
  • Character
  • Literature
  • Wealth

• The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Feels
  • Lifestyle
  • Preppy

• I did the original Robotron game back in 1982. To me it's still one of the classic 2D games as far as action and decisions per second, and kills per second, and explosions per second. It's super-frenetic and totally involving. There's been a lot of games since, a lot of Robotron sequels. A lot of them haven't even captured the magic of Robotron, much less moving things forward.

  

  Eugene Jarvis
  • Action
  • Moving
  • Decision

• In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.

  

  Natalie
  • Perfection
  • Evolution
  • Program

• This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Serious
  • Study
  • Games

• I love classic looks and I love glamour. I love being able to switch to a classic day to a really really nice glamorous look at night.

  

  Erin Brady
  • Night
  • Day
  • Glamour

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Funny
  • Lawyer
  • Wit

• Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Romantic
  • Classic
  • Dramas

• Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

  

  Alan Bennett
  • Book
  • Read
  • Classic

• Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

  

  Bruce Kovner
  • Risk
  • Bigs
  • Trade

• From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

  

  Cat Power
  • Country
  • Records
  • Western

• You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit.

  

  Andre Lhote
  • Spirit
  • Model
  • Classic

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