Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've seen it time and time again, going all the way back to the classic tapes. You want to be a part of something special like this.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him.

Charlaine Harris

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

Lesley Manville

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Lionel Richie

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

Andre Holland

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Jay Kay

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.

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing growth in jazz and classical music.

Rick Moody

writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it

WFSU is incredibly lucky to offer top quality programming on FM, with a news and classical station, and on television,

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.

David Draiman

That's definitely more of a classic sound. We've been encouraging him to do it for quite some time and I'm glad that he's finally come to his senses and has decided to show the world how great he can rip on that thing.

The mile and a quarter of the Kentucky Derby is the classic distance, and I think it's right between his eyes.

This is definitely a departure from the classical musicals we've done in the past. I wanted to do something totally different and quirky and weird.

Jack Bruce

I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.

Increasingly in the last few years, Europe and the United States have been kind of going their own separate ways when it comes to classical music, ... I think there's more of a division than there was 10 years ago, especially since people aren't making recordings in the same way they used to.

In a way, it's kind of classic Derrick. For four years now, he's gone and missed pool records by tenths of seconds, hundreds of seconds. I can't even remember how many times he's been that close to a record and just missed it.

I like people to see that classical music is not stuffy. It's something for any generation.

Rob Thomas

I like something with a classic touch. That way, it's easy.

I kept making the point that when we drafted him I didn't see him as a classic offensive defenseman,

I hope the commercial market will pick up on this. We are all in this together. We all want to get classical music out there.

Herbie Hancock

I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours that are more in the line that classical musicians play.

Susan Hill

I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.

I'm a classically trained musician. Most of the time I'm playing solo classical guitar. It's really exciting to be able to meld with a group of musicians, express myself on a larger palette.

I'm sure I can speak for other anglers when I say the Classic is what we all shoot for. Qualifying for the Classic is a measure of how good your year has been.

Oh, man, that was a great game. We'll see if it's on ESPN Classic soon.