Class Quotes · Page 14

“She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

— Barry Jenkins

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

— Anonymous

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

— Ira Glass

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

— Richard Simmons

I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from.

— Jasper Carrott

I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.

— Bobby Cannavale

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.

— Sandra Cisneros

I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call…

— John Corbett

The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story…

— Tamara Keith

You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead,

— Kanye West

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine…

— Jimmy Carr

We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen!

— David Berg

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

— Albert Einstein

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to…

— Timothy Noah

If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a…

— Howard Zinn

Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used…

— William Monahan

I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The…

— Patrick Stump

The conversation should've been about middle class people. The conversation should've been about how to raise the minimum wage and strengthen Social…

— Keith Ellison

California Governor Gray Davis visited an elementary school here in Los Angeles where he taught a class. I don't want to say…

— Jay Leno

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and…

— James Sinegal

Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you…

— Emmett Shear

In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.

— Paul Merson

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

— Andrew Carnegie

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

— Bell Hooks

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

— Maya Lin

I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven.

— Laurie Hernandez

The best class I ever took in high school was typing.

— Keith Hernandez

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

— Al Capone

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

— Gore Vidal

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

— Sally Field

Linares is one of those fighters that always oozes quality and class.

— Paulie Malignaggi

If I have to die, I want to combust in the middle of one of my classes.

— Richard Simmons

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Its so boring in class right now bought to get a headache!!

— Jon

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

— Ron White

And understand: class differences will not save you.

— H. Rap Brown