Classic Quotes - Page 31

• I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Philosophy, Italian

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• Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

  Pauline Kael

  Hollywood, Patterns, Want

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• One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.

  Jonathan Raban

  Drama, Fall, Eden

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• I don't believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.

  Tom Ford

  Strong, Believe, Cutting

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• A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Children, Suffering, Firsts

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”

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• Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.

  Alice Temperley

  Style, Twists, Bohemian

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• The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

  Shulamith Firestone

  Alternatives, Revolutionary, Traps

  Shulamith Firestone (1970). “The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution”

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• We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. 'New atheists' and reductive materialists conduct gladiatorial debates against defenders of faith and enemies of reductionism. Lots of heat is produced, but, alas, little light is shed. How marvelous it is, then, to see this fine new book by Lenn E. Goodman and Gregory Caramenico. Here is a learned, illuminating, and decidedly non-polemical treatment of the classic questions of soul, mind, and brain-an exemplary work of scholarship.

  Robert P. George

  Atheist, Memories, Book

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• The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can withstand all of these different interpretations and different styles and, that's what makes a classic character a classic character; they keep coming back and you see them in a new way every time.

  Laura Linney

  Character, Style, Way

  "Mr. Holmes: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 With Congo". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic.

  Cam Newton

  Trying, Dresses, Attention

  "The ESQ&A: Cam Newton on His New Clothing Line". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.

  Jordan Spieth

  Athletic, Kind, Under Armour

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Pie, Laughing

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• I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

  Peter Capaldi

  Guitar, Live For Today, Alive

  "My week" by Peter Capaldi, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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• My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

  Patti LuPone

  Rocks, Stories, Mahler

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• Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Horror Genre, Scare, Fans

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• The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

  Gunter Brus

  White, Space, Three

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

  Sam Lake

  Art, Games, Acting

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• The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.

  Richard Ayoade

  Character, Talking, Two

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

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• You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.

  Carly Schroeder

  Kings, Jobs, Mean

  "EXCLUSIVE: Carly Schroeder Kicks the Winning Goal in Gracie" by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 29, 2007.

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• I like What Goes Around Comes Around for old concert tees. Oh man, I got this 'Sgt. Pepper' cartoon Beatles shirt there; it was, like, $300. I didn't even know how much it cost - I thought it was gonna be, like, $80 at most - till I got to the register and was like, 'Oh mah gawd!' Good Lord. But it's classic vintage rock, you know?

  Kid Cudi

  Men, Sgt Pepper, Rocks

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• Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is clear and compelling in its logic and flat-out inspiring in its inviting exposition of usable techniques and strategies. If this book is read by enough people, the world will transform.

  Hugh Prather

  Strong, Book, Communication

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• The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty is, indeed, but another name for justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

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• Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

  Adolf Hitler

  Philosophy, Community, Political

  "Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Poli". Book by Avraham Barkai, pp. 26–27, 1990.

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• I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.

  Adolf Hitler

  Philosophy, People, Community

  "Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Policy". Book by Avraham Barkai, pp. 26-27, 1990.

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