Browsing Topic Best Classic Quotes

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the stomachs of astonished gastronomes. Bouillabaisse is one of those classic dishes whose glory has encircled the world, and the miracle consists of this: there are as many bouillabaisses as there are good chefs or cordon bleus. Each brings to his own version his special touch.

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Michael made his debut in John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. With the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended.

The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

Were you here in the bad old days? … That’s why you can’t read and write then!

Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you?

Deaf? If you’re near there, no wonder you are deaf.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

That’s a nice tie… Do you have any knickers in that material?

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

I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece. Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well. I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I’d known of him because I’m from Europe. I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great. I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic.

I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic.

Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.

I tend to keep my style very classic. I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine floral things. I’m not very edgy.

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.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as ‘excellence’ or ‘virtue,’ but has a deeper meaning — something closer to ‘expressing the highest version of ourselves.’ When we’re showing up fully moment to moment, there’s no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here’s to getting our areté on!

I have a screened in porch, and it’s nice to curl up with a book outside when it’s raining, especially an old battered classic like ‘Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

Fashions fade, style is eternal. – Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. – Alicia KeysIt’s a new era in fashion – there are no rules. It’s all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel… I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.

Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense – the only real 12-cylinder engine – is Catherine Zeta-Jones.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

There’s a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend – we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It’s a little bit dangerous, because you’ll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it’s shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That’s a classic double-whammy on inflation.

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don’t have the classic brain, the classic training, but we’re creative, so we figure it out.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

It’s a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There’s this misapprehension that the audience is not smart.