Class Quotes · Page 46

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

— Margaret Cho

When I'm outside of camp, I gain 40 or 50 pounds above my weight class. It shouldn't have to be that way,…

— Kelvin Gastelum

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

— Thorstein Veblen

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

— William Styron

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

— Rebecca Miller

I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple:…

— Tim Ferriss

I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again,…

— William J. Clinton

Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is…

— C. L. R. James

Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision…

— Christopher Hitchens

I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the…

— Anonymous

I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on…

— T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I could be a yoga instructor. I'm not certified, but I could do it. Once I did a class where the instructor…

— Nina Dobrev

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

— Renato Dulbecco

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The…

— Oscar Wilde

When I was 13 I would come to school with makeup and nail polish and I had teachers who would say, 'We…

— Bill Kaulitz

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a…

— Bernie Sanders

The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the…

— Harry Wong

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

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

I came from a seedha-saadha middle class family in Mumbai. The Infosys story changed our life drastically but we have remained the…

— Rohini Nilekani

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts…

— Evan Daugherty

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

— Bear Bryant

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were…

— Patti Smith

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

— George Packer

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

— Kinky Friedman

Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they…

— Joseph Chamberlain

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

— C. L. R. James

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better…

— James Thayer

Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For…

— J. R. Martinez

All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble.

— Arnold Beichman

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and…

— Frederick Lenz

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

— Norman Fell

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

— Steve Hilton

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

My work ethics have been the same whether it's in international cricket, first class, or even club cricket.

— S. Sreesanth