Class Quotes

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.

Class still matters in Britain today.

I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

I took tap classes growing up.

Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

Donald Trump is accomplishing getting, particularly white, working-class voters, who are turned off by their own party.

I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be about that sense of rage and displacement among white working-class voters.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

I didn't take a single business class. I learned on the job.

I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.

My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

Whole class of filmmakers, they're all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome.

The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

As much as I love to dance, and I still take class, aerobics and that sort of thing, and I still move very well and all of that - I'm really not a dancer anymore.

I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.

One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork because of the Jungian slant of it all, and that really called to me.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.