I've heard people ask, What's so sacred about a classic books that you can't change it for the modern child? Nothing is sacred about a classic. What makes a classic is the life that has accrued to it from generation after generation of children. Children give life to these books. Some books which you could hardly bear to read are, for children, classic.
I like What Goes Around Comes Around for old concert tees. Oh man, I got this 'Sgt. Pepper' cartoon Beatles shirt there; it was, like, $300. I didn't even know how much it cost - I thought it was gonna be, like, $80 at most - till I got to the register and was like, 'Oh mah gawd!' Good Lord. But it's classic vintage rock, you know?
It's a vast waste of space.
I try to be classic without being mumsy.
I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make something radically different. I use a lot of both in my translation, and modernism does both. For instance, if you look at the way James Joyce presents Ulysses, is that domesticating a classic? Think of it as an experiment in relation to a well-known text in another language.
I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.
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.
Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today. ' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel. . . I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
Parineeta is a classic love story.
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.
I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.
I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.
The classic literature is always modern.
Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!
I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.