Class Quotes · Page 55

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama…

— Brent Spiner

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the…

— Gore Vidal

You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.

— Josh Linkner

Coaching 'The Ultimate Fighter' in my weight class, I couldn't do it. I'd basically be coaching people to beat me. I'm going…

— Demetrious Johnson

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal,…

— John Connolly

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

— Stephen King

I am excited to have the opportunity to help provide the same swim instruction that I received as a child when I…

— Michael Phelps

I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation…

— Danny Pino

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at…

— Barack Obama

A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth.…

— Chris Hedges

I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was…

— Anna Faris

“Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive.…

— Suzy Kassem

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only…

— Ralph Bakshi

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it…

— Anonymous

The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class…

— Abigail Adams

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

— H. Rap Brown

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of…

— Henry David Thoreau

When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall.…

— Lionel Shriver

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so…

— J. Cole

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

— Nick Hanauer

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

— Joseph Stalin

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who…

— Tina Fey

I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

— Tig Notaro

The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

— Derek Clayton

The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

— Michael Yates

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how…

— Anonymous

'Never sacrifice your class to get even with someone who has, no class let them have the GUTTER, and you take the…

— Andrew Guzaldo

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to…

— Raymond Chandler

I like to think of myself as a class act, and there are very few guys that meet all of my qualifications.

— Michelle McCool

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano…

— Rohinton Mistry

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the…

— Aristotle

I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb…

— Gaspar Noe

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach…

— Bobby Knight

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

— Robertson Davies

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

— Michael Faraday

It's healthy to ditch class now and then." To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when…

— Stephenie Meyer

I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.

— James Thayer

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can…

— Jerry Goldsmith