Classic Quotes - Page 23

• I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Ideas, Standards, Classic Beauty

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

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Motorcycle, Riding, Maintenance

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Spring, Fall, Rain

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.94, Xist Publishing

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• I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can’t throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins’ greatest hits and chucked it at him.

  Rachel Vincent

  Twins, Aerosmith, Copies

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.226, MIRA

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• Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

  Vince Flynn

  Mistake, Stupidity, Enemy

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• I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

  Sylvia Plath

  Desire, Feminism, Being A Woman

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• Classic line from Bones (vampire) to human who thinks human kind is ready for the vamps and ghouls to come out of the closet "The day your kind stops killing each other over skin colour or which God someone prays to, I might believe that".

  Jeaniene Frost

  Believe, Thinking, Ghouls

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• Now he looked at the classic parked on the street and admitted, “I bought it soon after we met. I… had hoped someday I might have this chance.” I pointed to the Galaxie. “You can’t possibly have felt like that for me then!” He turned to gaze into my eyes, laying his chin on my shoulder as he said softly, “I have loved you with everything in me from the moment I saw you.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Eye, Might, Saws

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• What's the woman doing there?" he asked. "Covering a scratch on the hood. She was cheaper than a new paint job." He flipped through a few more pages of barely dressed women and classic cars. "Nick used to have magazines like this when we were kids. But without the cars." He rotated a photo sideways. "Or the bathing suits.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Jobs, Kids, Car

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.457, Vintage Canada

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• 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.

  Charlaine Harris

  Said, Direct

  Charlaine Harris (2006). “Definitely Dead”, p.107, Penguin

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• I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients

  Lauren Oliver

  Winter, Kissing, Feet

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She’d totally been born in the wrong century. She should have lived back when she could have gotten herself fed to some lions for a good cause.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Hurt, Should Have

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• He was jingling his keys in the pocket of his coat -- one of those barn coats described as rugged and classic and four hundred dollar that were usually worn by people who spend more time in Land Rovers than barns.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Keys, Land, People

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

  Rob Bell

  Party, Working Together, Midnight

  Rob Bell (2013). “Love Wins and The Love Wins Companion”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.

  Matthew Kelly

  Thinking, Humanity, Church

  Matthew Kelly (2002). “Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose”, p.118, BookBaby

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  Quiet people have the loudest minds.

  Stephen Hawking

  Quiet People, Fearless, Mind

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• As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

  Tim Gunn

  Inspiration, Long, Amazon

  Tim Gunn (2010). “Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work”, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!

  Hiro Mashima

  Lying, Cat, Stories

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• I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Play, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.87, Penguin Group

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• She got to you, too, huh?" I said, sliding onto the bench seat across from him. "Actually, I called her." Luca grinned. "I'm vomiting from a possible case of food poisoning. You?" "Sudden onset menstruation." He nodded respectfully. "Classic." "Yeah, but I should have gone for something more long-term. Yours will get you out of the whole afternoon. Ferris Bueller would be proud.

  Rachel Vincent

  Should Have, Long, Vomiting

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• I love making observations. That one is a classic example.

  Stephen Colbert

  Example, Love Making, Observation

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2012

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• A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Ancient, Talismans

  Italo Calvino (2014). “Why Read the Classics?”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Dvds, Nemo, Modern

  Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven”, p.70, Macmillan

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• I flipped the good doctor the bird. Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall. "What is it with you and giving people the finger?" "What? It's a classic.

  Sylvia Day

  Doctors, Hands, People

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.495, Penguin

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Science

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 3

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