Classic Quotes

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

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

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

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.