Class Quotes

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.

You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.

P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.

I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

You know the awkward class photo when you're sitting there for your school picture and you're 14 or something and you've got braces, and you don't know how to smile, and you've got a hard-on.

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

There are two ways to travel, first class or with children.

At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent.

Destabilization and turmoil,[Steven] Lerner hopes, will also crash the stock market, isolating the banking class and allowing for a transfer of power.

All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

Through the craziness, yoga classes allow me a safe space to breathe and put energy into myself.

Exercise and writing are so therapeutic to me. I try to write every day and I make it a huge priority to find time to work out, even if that means taking a spin class at 7am before work.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.

I came from a real working-class show business family.