Modern Classics Quotes

#1. When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

Linda Grant

#2. With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

Brian Setzer

#3. You can't complain when people appreciate what you're doing.

Jacoby Ellsbury

#4. For me, that was the death of the word, or; because now, there is no other. It was the end of the word, and; for I love only you.

Lang Leav

#5. My rule of thumb is to strike a balance by sticking to the classics and playing with color, texture, and print to give them a modern update. On any given day, I keep it simple with jeans or chinos and a comfortable dress shirt.

Tommy Hilfiger

#6. Dripping wet in a secret passage. It was pretty damn hot.

Rachel Morgan

#7. In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Amy Lowell

#8. In the infinitesimal glow of the stars,
the trees and flowers were strewing
their cool odos. There was no moon.

Sylvia Plath

#9. For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

#11. You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

Tom Colicchio

#12. The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#13. I was participating in something horrible, and my only defense is that I was motivated by my own fear, which of course is no defense at all.

Mat Johnson

#14. The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

Michael York

#15. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. ... some people have more opportunity because they're born with it ...

Harper Lee

#17. I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

Vladimir Putin

#18. It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#19. For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science.

Peter Agre

#20. [In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.

Stephen Jay Gould