Classic Quotes - Page 3

• Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Home, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.23, Anchor

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• I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Movie, Great Year, Wind

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Years, Heathcliff

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.473, Penguin

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• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  Mario Puzo

  Inspirational, Movie, Hollywood Films

  The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.

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• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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• I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

  David Ginola

  Memories, Hero, Hard Times

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• I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

  Frances McDormand

  Rocks, Metals, Hard Rock

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• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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  To err is human; to forgive, divine.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Letting Go

  An Essay on Criticism l. 525 (1711). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Although known in Latin (humanum est errare, it is human to err) and in earlier English versions, this saying is generally quoted in Pope's words." The ODP cites "To offend is humaine, to repent diuine" (Henry Wotton, 1578) and "To erre is humane, to repent is divine" (James Howell, 1659).

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• If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

  Sylvia Plath

  Expectations, Feminism, Being A Woman

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• I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

  Sylvia Plath

  Famous Inspirational, Book, Skills

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• A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspirational Life, Book

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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• I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Children, Middle Child, Way

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• I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung

  Gavin DeGraw

  Real, Thinking, Soul

  "Gavin Degraw remembers NYC struggles, knows his place" by Carolyn E. Davis, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2005.

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• Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

  Leonard Maltin

  Today, Television, Wonderful

  "In The Money" with Jack Cafferty, www.cnn.com. December 26, 2004.

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• It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

  Don Adams

  Special, Made, Cult

  "Actor Don Adams Dies at 82". www.foxnews.com. September 27, 2005.

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• So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

  Bill Bruford

  Technique, Holes, Tricky

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• I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

  Dirk Benedict

  Voice, People, Example

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• I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

  Jessica Biel

  Texas, Fans, Firsts

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• Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

  Michael Berryman

  Eye, Flattery, Hills

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• Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

  David Amram

  Writing, Literature, World

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• It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

  Cory Doctorow

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

  Mose Allison

  Kings, Player, Jazz

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• I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

  Jim Varney

  Pieces, Film, Bits

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

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