Quotes by Classic The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite. Edmund White classic gay facts The classic literature is always modern. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton modern classic literature There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too. Elizabeth Wurtzel classic mind sun 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 classic love years The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt. Eric Weiner classic coffee genius We've all got a lot of catching up to do. I'm still learning how to act, for god's sake. When I see these old-timers on the Turner Classic Movies, I still get ideas, you know. That's where you really learn acting. If you really see some of these old boys working it and you say to yourself, "My God, if I could really do that that would be wonderful." Ernest Borgnine classic acting boys Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. Ernest Shackleton umpires classic effort I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment. Esa-Pekka Salonen classic term moments Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity. Esa-Pekka Salonen pity classic kind My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic. Eva Green chic classic father A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. Ezra Pound classic fit definitions I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal. Frances McDormand metals classic rocks Revenge is a kind of wild justice. Francis Bacon classic revenge justice Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not? Gail Carriger classic moments character While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that. George Ezra teenager classic running Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity. George Thorogood classic rocks radio When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. George Steiner citing classic pages The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. Gertrude Stein outlaw classic art 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 irritating accepted classic To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. George Santayana elude classic psychological «1234567891011»