Classic Quotes - Page 2

• A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

  Italo Calvino

  Art, Book, Literature

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

  Max Eastman

  Art, Romance, Bears

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• A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Book, Writing, Written

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• When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Art, Book, Reading

  Any Number Can Play "War and Peace, Fifteen Years After" (1957)

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

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Thinking, Definitions

  Alan Bennett (2014). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

  George Thorogood

  Rocks, Radio, Longevity

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• And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Dark, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

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• Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Romantic, Careers, Remember

  In Robert Craft 'Conversations with Igor Stravinsky' (1958)

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• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  Mario Puzo

  Inspirational, Movie, Hollywood Films

  The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.

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• If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Years, Heathcliff

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.473, Penguin

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• Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, Animal, Men

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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• After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Movie, Hope

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Movie, Great Year, Wind

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

  "The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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

  Lee Child

  Jobs, Simple, Television

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• I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

  Mario Batali

  Book, Italian, Cooking

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• Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

  Gloria Swanson

  Art, Brain, Example

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• 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Following the Equator ch. 25, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

  Salvador Dali

  Museums, Trying, Purpose

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.397, Courier Corporation

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• That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Romantic Love, Cinema, Normal

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

  Anthony Weiner

  New York, School, Lost

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• In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Christian, Jobs, Fairytale

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• I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

  David Ginola

  Memories, Hero, Hard Times

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• I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Eye, Numbness

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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