Quotes About Classics

I remember recording over my mom's cassettes and putting on 'Thuggish Ruggish Bone,' and my mom be like, 'What the hell?' Being that I was born in '82, I've been listening to all of the classics throughout my years.

You know 'The Shawshank Redemption?' I've seen that movie, like, 30 times or something. 'Dirty Harry,' too - I love that movie.

I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine,' that's one of my favorites.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

I like all kinds of music, be it old Hindi movie songs or English classics.

Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove of comics included gems such as 'Little Lulu,' 'Frontline Combat' and 'Classics Illustrated.' But the works that stood head and shoulders above the rest were Carl Barks's 'Donald Duck' and 'Uncle Scrooge' comics from the 1940s through the 1960s.

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Klasyka, to to, co wszyscy chcieliby przeczyta? i czego nikt nie czyta.

Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, often translated as "Even Homer nods.

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

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.

I love Tom Petty the way a lot of people love him. He's got so many amazing songs, and you know them by heart. They're classics.

I watch a ton of movies. Going way back, I like 'The Godfather.' 'The Matrix' was one of my favorites - the first one; they got a little carried away after the first one. Those are two that stand out.

Cada época lee a sus clásicos de distinta manera. El lector encuentra en ellos los contenidos que le permiten aclarar su presente, resolver sus dilemas, vislumbrar con mayor claridad sus objetivos. Una gran obra trascenderá siempre las intenciones de su autor y las limitaciones de su tiempo

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

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.