456 Quotes About Classic

  • Author Susan Hill
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    I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.

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  • Author Tim Heidecker
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    Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.

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  • Author Clive James
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    One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

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  • Author Clive James
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    Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

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  • Author Clive James
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    She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny.

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  • Author James Jones
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    I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.

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  • Author Peter Jennings
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    Now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to play for you the Duke Ellington classic 'Take the Train' eh?

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