Classic Quotes - Page 24

• . . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and---from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization.

  William Faulkner

  Christian, Fall, Light

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• Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.

  Pete Wentz

  Order, Needs, Argument

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Accepted, Irritating, Realising

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.515, Vintage

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• Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Example, News, Littles

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

  William Goldman

  Book, Princess, Adventure

  William Goldman (2007). “The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Epic, Doctors

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 2, l. 352

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• There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

  Leon Bloy

  Death, Grief, Heart

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• Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

  Stephen Decatur

  Country, Military, Patriotic

  Toast at dinner, Norfolk, Va., Apr. 1816. This wording is quoted in Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Life of Stephen Decatur (1848). According to Respectfully Quoted, ed. Suzy Platt, "Niles' Weekly Register, published in Baltimore, Maryland, gave a slightly different version in its April 20, 1816, issue (p. 136). A number of the toasts at the dinner for Decatur were included, probably reprinted from a Virginia newspaper, and Decatur's appeared as 'Our country - In her intercourse with foreign nation

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• A week is a long time in politics.

  Harold Wilson

  Long, Political, Politics

  Nigel Rees Sayings of the Century (1984) p. 149

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• I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

  Simon Winchester

  Hero, Thinking, People

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• Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

  Clive James

  Funny Inspirational, Worry, Alive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Horse, Time, People

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• No coward soul is mine.

  Emily Bronte

  Adventure, Soul, Survival

  "Last Lines" l. 1 (1846)

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• Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

  Samuel Palmer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Samuel Palmer (1710). “Moral Essays on Some of the Most Curious and Significant English, Scotch, and Foreign Proverbs”, p.8

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• That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.

  Martyn Rooney

  Sexy, Workout, Bad Ass

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• Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time . . . played on the same courses for generations. All the best players are always there.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Generations

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• If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

  Rupert Brooke

  Army, Thinking, Navy

  "The Soldier" l. 1 (1914)

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• A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

  Clive James

  Wisdom, Good Life, America

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• The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts

  Stephen Gaskin

  Attitude, Kindness, Hippie

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• Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth' on the fingers of coastal land, suggests that such notable features of our planet as dinosaurs, the prairies, the Himalayas, the seagull, the female of the species herself, were accidental by-products of the Almighty's preoccupation with the creation of the Old Course at St. Andrews.

  Alistair Cooke

  Moving, Golf, Land

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.114, Arcade Publishing

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• To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

  George Santayana

  Elude, Psychological, Form

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.533, Indiana University Press

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• Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Hiring, Accused

  "George Bush: 'I was comfortable to take the shot at Saddam". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.independent.co.uk. April 25, 2003.

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• Classical ballet will never die.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Art, Ballet

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• Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

  Steve Hackett

  Years, Stuff, Hundred

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• 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.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Shoes, Clothes

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