#classic

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #champagne #classical-music #feasts #happiness

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that. ↗

— George Thorogood

#because #classic #classic rock #come #down

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#classical #cream #crop #did #extensive

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love. ↗

— Raquel Welch

#boarding #boarding school #buy #classic #cookies

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#drama #fiction #nick-carraway #challenge

Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang ↗

— Lao Tzu

#classics #tao-te-ching #balance

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#drama #english-literature #drama

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#weakness

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #faith #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #haiku #haikus

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#book #classic #did #more #reread