Classic Quotes

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

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.

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.

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

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.

Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

Do you work in a strip club?

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.

He would, wouldn't he?

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?

So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

Do you still throw spears at each other?

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!

I am too pure for you or anyone.

It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine years old. Then a classic case of divorce really affected me and I moved back and forth between relatives all the time. And I just became extremely depressed and withdrawn.

If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested.

That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

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

It's a vast waste of space.

British women can't cook.

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

The classic literature is always modern.