Classic Quotes

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

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!

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

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.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

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

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.

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

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

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

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

I am too pure for you or anyone.

Do you still throw spears at each other?

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

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

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 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.

The classic Soul Travel experience is leaving the human body in full awareness and having the Light and Sound of God flow directly into the Soul body.

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

The blood is the life!

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

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.

British women can't cook.

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

An instant family classic that is utterly unique but reminiscent of films like 'E.T.,' 'Sound of Music' and 'Life Is Beautiful.'

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.

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

It's a vast waste of space.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.

For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.

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

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

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

The classic literature is always modern.

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

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.