Preclassic Quotes

#1. Unlike Virgil, Homer is no part of the classical age, has no truck with judicious distinction or the calm management of life and society. He precedes that order, is a preclassic, immoderate, uncompromising, never sacrificing truth for grace.

Adam Nicolson

#2. I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

Karl Lagerfeld

#3. This sense of 'place'
that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.

Eve Babitz

#4. What's the bee in your bonnet? Seems to be some kind of idealism.

Robert Musil

#5. This fresh-cut-grass smell was the olfactory scream of the plants.

Lauren Groff

#6. And what good's a life that leaves nothing behind/Not a thought or a dream that might echo in time.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

#7. Monsters don't always lurk in the shadows. Sometimes they hide in plain sight.

Belle Aurora

#8. Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.

Aleksandar Hemon

#9. I used to be so good at that kind of thing," Skulduggery said quietly.
"Well, my morale is certainly boosted," Valkyrie informed him.
"Really?"
"god no. That was terrible

Derek Landy

#10. All I have to say is: Jessica Simpson is the most beautiful woman on the planet!

Jessica Simpson

#11. A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

Darrell Royal

#12. It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

Daniel Okrent

#13. I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Tim Berners-Lee

#14. Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.

Linda Evangelista

#15. In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.

F. Sionil Jose