Classicist Quotes

#1. My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

Sarah Dessen

#2. I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.

Tim Gunn

#3. I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

T. S. Eliot

#4. I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

Phillip Lim

#5. The American classicist Edith Hamilton once described the great works of literature, the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

Edith Hamilton

#6. Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#7. Everything is true at once. Life is a contradiction. We take in every lesson. We find what works.

Jandy Nelson

#8. It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.

Emily Haines

#9. Just because they're going to the gym, a lot of guys wear old T-shirts that look like they've been lying in the closet for 15 years. My workout clothes have to work.

Henrik Lundqvist

#10. A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

William Hazlitt

#11. Luck and nature shapes our imagination.

Kishore Bansal

#12. Egypt is a sovereign nation.

William Hague

#13. When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

Warren Farrell

#14. Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'

David Hawkins

#15. It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

Mikhail Baryshnikov