Class Quotes

I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.

Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have.

I would have put more emphasis on bringing working class people together to fight for a government that works for all of us.

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

Paolo Maldini is neither a legend nor a world class player!

My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

Equality is a mortuary word.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying."

Under [Betsy DeVos] leadership, we can deliver a world-class education and school choice to all families.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once.

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.

She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

If you're in the culture business, you're not so locked in to your class, or you can have fun with it.

The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.