Class Quotes · Page 49

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man…

— Christina Stead

I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the…

— Edgerrin James

[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

— Hilary Mantel

I always felt like, 'I hope Oprah teaches a class to everybody when they get super famous about how to use, responsibly,…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

I dream of playing at the highest level, in the biggest clubs in the world and being next to world class players.

— Wissam Ben Yedder

We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and…

— Ross Martin

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols… we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who…

— Alfred Korzybski

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

— Carter G. Woodson

The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go…

— Glenn Reynolds

I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of…

— Garrett Hedlund

A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it. My…

— Kurt Russell

You got to miss class to do it. Like, many periods of school. And then they took us to an elementary or…

— Ilana Glazer

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease…

— Booker T. Washington

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth.…

— Jude Law

The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a…

— Gerald Early

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was…

— Ayelet Waldman

I had the working class ethic. I wanted to make a living and there weren't many opportunities for an opera singer in…

— Jane McDonald

There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach…

— Jay Leno

I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown.…

— Mike Huckabee

“Westerners drop / I love you’s / into conversation / like blueberries / hitting soft muffin dough / I convert it to shillings / wince.”

— Shailja Patel

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

— Geraldine Brooks

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

— Friedrich Engels

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We…

— Daphne Koller

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with…

— Daniel Webster

It's kind of the Washington, D.C., chattering class. They kind of talk amongst themselves.

— George W. Bush

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

— Thomas Frank

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was…

— John O'Hara

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension,…

— J. K. Rowling

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

— James Hillman

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor…

— William Cobbett

In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give…

— Andrew Bird

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Working with Cate Blanchett, on and off the screen, has always been a highlight for me. She embodies the perfect combination of…

— Giorgio Armani

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even…

— Oliver Sacks

Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding…

— Najib Razak

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

— Karl Liebknecht

I'm very flexible. I've got flexibility in any weight class. If you guys out there want to fight me man, I will…

— Adrien Broner

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life…

— Blake Lively

When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing…

— Susan Collins