Top 534 Classic Quotes

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

I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time – and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.

I think the old classic Porsches are fantastic, with those lovely curved lines, but I don’t like the modern ones at all.

For me personally, I feel that a film that doesn’t end with a happy ending has a far bigger reach. It lingers on far more. Unrequited love stories have much more impact on the audiences. If ‘Romeo and Juliet’ had been happily married and had kids and dogs, I don’t think it would have been a classic.

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, ‘Theater is going to change the world’ kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

You really just can’t go wrong with a classic red lip.

I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that’s sort of the aim I had with ‘Hero’ – just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.

A lot of R&B cats are doing a lot of auto-tune. Tyrese went back to the basics. I love classic soul music and Ginuwine. Ginuwine and Usher laid the foundation back in the ’90s. There’s no one doing that anymore.

I like to mix it up, but I do like a lot of ’60s fashion. But I like to make it a bit more edgier, sometimes a bit more rockier, sometimes a bit more classic.

I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It’s a classic isn’t it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that’s how I release it, through music.

If you watch the Cruiserweight Classic, you want different professional wrestling. You want guys who are going to go out there, put their bodies on the line, and show you passion.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it’s such a cult classic. I’d seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

The thing with the mustache is, it’s a classic. A guy can always wear a mustache. But it’s still tricky and potentially fraught with peril.

I do love the Nat King Cole stuff, the classic Christmas records. There’s something about putting those records on and hearing his voice at Christmastime that brings back a lot of great memories of growing up.

It’s funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world’s biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least.

I can’t pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again, the so-called classic plays. I mean how many times can we see ‘The Glass Menagerie?’

Generally speaking, I’m a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It’s nothing fancy – just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It’s timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down.

Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.

In many ways I think ‘Fly From Here’ is a return to classic Yes; people seem to have been really enjoying it, integrated into the set along with the old material.

The ‘classic’ pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper.

I love Gwen Stefani. I’d watch what she’d wear over and over again and think, ‘How do I nail this style?’ And then, I like that classic beauty, too. Audrey Hepburn, she’s so elegant.

A classic fishtail parka, anorak, mackintosh, windbreaker, pea coat, or jean jacket will get you through every season.

One of the things that has proven true in our career is that even if you take something that’s as straightforward and classic as a father-son story, you can express it in a way that’s totally unique to you.

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

Ni Main Yaar Manana Ni’ is a cult classic and also one of my favourite songs from a Yash Chopra movie. The song is about never giving up on one’s love and I connected instantly with it when I first heard it.

I’ve always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I’m drawn to more classic looks, though I’ll still put my own twist on them.

A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.

Who doesn’t love classic Destiny’s Child or Ace of Base? There’s so much amazing music from that time period, so it makes sense that we’re starting to hear that pop up in records.

As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven’t been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That’s okay – I’m down with that.

My dining and entertainment philosophy – I can boil it down to ‘the three C’s – I like my food like my fashion: casual, classic, and with a touch of couture.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

My style is a little ’70s and classic old Hollywood. I incorporate a lot of vintage, bohemian blouses paired with a good wedge.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

The musicals that I loved, growing up – many, many. ‘Singing in the Rain,’ of course, is a classic, I love ‘Meet Me in St. Louis.’ I love ‘Funny Face,’ Stanley Donen’s beautiful movie. It’s really countless for me.

I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

It’s good to start early when buying jewelry pieces. Aside from being investments, they are classic, they are timeless, and they are something that you pass on – it’s a memory, it’s an heirloom.

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

When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to ‘crush’ the Ants. These guys hated each other.

For me it’s all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.

We played in a number of these neutral site games, I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.

When you’re remaking a classic, you don’t want it to lose steam.

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.

The classic French blanch-and-cool technique I learned at Chez Panisse yields the kind of brilliant, picturesque vegetables we all want to see on restaurant plates. Long-cooked foods, on the other hand, fall firmly into the ‘ugly but good’ camp of the Tuscan cucina povera, where flavor far outshines looks.

There are so many things we have not seen in ‘Spider-Man’ yet… I want to use bad guys never seen in movies. The first films were so traditional and so scrupulously followed the character’s classic plot… So there’s a lot of stuff left in stock. ‘The Clone Saga,’ for example.

I love romance comics. I grew up with ‘Archie’ and got into other classic series as I got older, and I’ve been diving into ‘Patsy Walker’ since starting work on this project.

The first Nintendo game I ever got was ‘Clash at Demonhead.’ I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, ‘Sailor Moon.’

I don’t like putting a name on my music. It’s not just country and rap; it’s got Southern rock, classic rock.

I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.

So in one sense you don’t have the classic keyboard player in Yes.

The fragrance I always wear is Coco by Chanel. I’ve worn it for 20 years. It suits me, it’s classic, and I like the simplicity of only ever wearing one fragrance.

I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote ‘Woods,’ a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. I had dedicated my libretto to my baby daughter.