Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

With a lot of classic programming, it's not airing anywhere. It's just collecting digital dust. Anything the studios make is gravy.

Bat for Lashes

I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.

Brad Goreski

You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.

I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.

Michael Gambon

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

Aimee Bender

I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And then you discover that the classics are classics because they're lively. They don't stick around because they're boring. If they're boring, they go away.

Arlo Guthrie

I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.

Bill Callahan

To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.

We've noticed that over time, it's the classic play patterns that really deliver on the promise that kids want. We saw that last year with Trivial Pursuit, which was the best-selling toy even in its 20th edition.

Aaron Paul

I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.

This really won't sink in for a while. We'll see this time and time again, you know, going back to all the classic tapes. Just to be part of this is something special.

The photos were taken at the three islands, North Island, South Island, and Stewart Island. There are a few good shots of a famous surf spot called Raglan - it's the longest surf left in the world and featured in the classic surf movie 'Endless Summer.' I also have a few of Clint's fishing boat, F/V Rachel, leaving the Port of New Zealand.

We've had some reporters ask, 'Why the public hearings? Why do we do them?' This is the classic example.

Elisha Cuthbert

We have a lot of throwbacks to, I think, the classic ideas of what horror film was all about, I think when we were younger.

This was just a classic game. We have had four 1-run games in the past two years. Today we had solid defense and good pitching. We turned two double plays that got us out of some jams.

David Siegel

Those things are super important to us. We think a lot about the way the world is detailed, what the sound feels like, what the music is going to be doing. I hesitate to say it, but we like the classic tradition of melodramatic cinema, of trying to create the music and drama of the world.

This was a classic pump and dump operation,

We just hope to ride the wave of this rebirth of classic rock 'n' roll.

Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.

Ice Cube

To see it as a game is dope. You know they've got all these other games, and they finally gave a little respect to one of the classic movies in American history.

Mark Shapiro

ESPN Classic is going through a transition. They're thirsty to put today's news in its proper historical sports context ... History defines sports. Without that context, today's news wouldn't be as grand.

Anne Fortier

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.

Charles Rosen

Except for recordings made by famous tenors, the emphasis in classical recording has for the most part recently been on the work, and even more on the composer-the performer being spotlighted as the composer's most accomplished representative.

Joshua Roman

There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too.

Terry Teachout

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.

Cuban baseball, Olympic and world champion, was always questioned because it didn't face professionals. And look, they reached the Classic final.

Cuba has shown the world that we have our heart in baseball. This classic is a historic event. We are not professionals. We don't get paid to play. But we ranked second, well deserved. I don't like losing. But I think we have shown a lot.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

You got some wind up there. And how many January days do you get temperatures of 60 early in the morning? That's a sign of how unusual the storm was. It was not your classic nor'easter.

Herbie Hancock

I started playing piano when I was 7. And I started with classical lessons. Then I really got exposed to jazz.

Cassie Steele

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

Brian Greene

Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.