Quotes of: Classic-example Keyword

A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Italo Calvino

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

Troye Sivan

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside...

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and authority of the commission Christ has given him. Our brother stands before us the sign of the truth and the grace of God. He has been gi...

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community

God has prepared for Himself one great song of praise throughout eternity, and those who enter the community of God join in this song. It is the song that the “morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy” at the creation o...

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

The Everlasting Man

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

Monica Raymund

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

Brooke Burns

You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

J. B. Smoove

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Keeping Faith

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

The Uses of Literature

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

Courtney Love

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

Lesley Garrett

Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion.

Sukhwinder Singh

A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.

The Flamethrowers

The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist is also a classic character.

Niels Arden Oplev

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

Renee Fleming

We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.

Stjepan Hauser

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

Tori Amos

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

Tori Amos

I like a lot of Ralph Lauren and classic styles... My style has changed in that I'm willing to try more things.

Troian Bellisario