Classic Quotes - Page 37

• I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.

  Diane Ackerman

  Rain, Book, Fall

  "Understanding writers, down to the letter / How do authors think? Interviews get behind the words to the creative process" by Steve Weinberg, www.sfgate.com. September 11, 2005.

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• This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Book, Kids, Ideas

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• A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

  Jean-Louis Barrault

  Patience, Treasure, Layers

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

  Alfred Kazin

  Book, Alive, Made

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• Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.

  Ned Rorem

  Mean, Form, Standards

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.259, Open Road Media

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• Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns.

  Robert Tisserand

  Powerful, Healing, Oil

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• It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.

  Walt Disney

  Character, Giving, Imagination

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• I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

  Mikky Ekko

  Ideas, People, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

  Max Levchin

  Mistake, Engineering, Confusing

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• I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Example, Citizens, Etc

  "Tommy Wiseau Goes Legit: An Interview With the Man Behind 'The Room'" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 9, 2011.

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• A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.

  Kenneth Turan

  Mold, Directors, Treats

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• Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Entrepreneur, Risk, Very Good

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• John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  War, Men, Voice

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• How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit.

  Michael Scott

  Real, Thinking, Gossip

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• The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Years

  "George Lucas on Star Wars, Fahrenheit 9/11, and his own legacy". Interview with Steve Silberman, www.wired.com. May 01, 2005.

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• I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

  Dhani Jones

  Want, Lasts, Over The Top

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• I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

  John Galt

  Men, Fans, Phrases

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• When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

  George Steiner

  Pages, Citing, Modern

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.159, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

  George Steiner

  Imagination, House, Treasure

  George Steiner (1980). “The death of tragedy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they know by heart, and I never had that. I've done Chekov and I've done Moliere and I've done classic stuff

  Tavis Smiley

  Drama, Heart, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band and I are proud to be a part. It's going to be a Guitar Guru Gala of Gargantuan proportions. For me personally, it will simply be the Greatest! So, see you at one of the dates on the tour. Believe me, this is not one you want to miss. All I can say is Get Ready To Rock'n'Roll!!!

  Edgar Winter

  Believe, Rocks, Guitar

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• 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.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Mistake, Smart, Character

  "‘The Past’ Director Asghar Farhadi Says Illusion That Audiences Don’t Like Complication Is Hurting American Cinema (Q&A)" by Ryan Lattanzio, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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• Classic was Jimmy Savile’s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile’s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmy’s celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Kindness, Media, Use

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• Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.

  Dally Messenger

  Loyalty, Grief, Divorce

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• And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky

  John Betjeman

  Flower, Clouds, Silver Bells

  John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.82, A&C Black

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