All Quotes

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.
‐‐ Steve Vai

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.
‐‐ Lola Kirke

The classical music world is so snobbish.
‐‐ Andre Rieu

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.
‐‐ Herbert A. Simon

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
‐‐ Timothy West

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
‐‐ Stephen Leacock

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.
‐‐ Trofim Lysenko

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
‐‐ John Ciardi

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
‐‐ Orson Welles

The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.
‐‐ Martin Rees

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.
‐‐ John Engler

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
‐‐ Rowan Atkinson

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
‐‐ Agnes Repplier

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.
‐‐ Herb Kelleher

The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
‐‐ Gerard Way

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
‐‐ John Muir

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half.
‐‐ Mark Zandi

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
‐‐ Abdolkarim Soroush

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
‐‐ John Hurt

The Cleveland Cavaliers are forced to play in something called the 'Quicken Loans Arena.' This is a terrible name for a sports venue.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
‐‐ Kenneth Grahame

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
‐‐ Fyodor Dostoevsky

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

The cliche is dead poetry.
‐‐ Gerald Brenan

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau

The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.
‐‐ Andy Kindler

The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
‐‐ Ben Brantley

The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
‐‐ Burn Gorman

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
‐‐ Ben Stiller

The client is not always right.
‐‐ Enzo Ferrari

'The Client List' is my baby. I always tell people, 'It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.' And, it really did take that long!
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt

The climate continues to deteriorate.
‐‐ Donella Meadows

The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

The climate informs the character.
‐‐ Melissa Leo

The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
‐‐ James Lovelock

The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.
‐‐ Michel Temer

The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
‐‐ Freeman Dyson

The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.
‐‐ David Attenborough

The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
‐‐ Nancy Kress

The climbs up the Hand of Fatima, which is 2,000 feet, and Naga Parbat, which is just over 15,000 feet, were spectacular. The Hand of Fatima and the Kaga Tondo, in Mali, is a personal favourite of mine.
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm