Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings.… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
The continual linking of the notions of terrorist and terrorism with Muslims and the Middle East is, essentially, an act of propaganda… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be… — Carol Browner Copy Share Image
Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country… — George Noory Copy Share Image
I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
He was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people's attention, and it's drawn attention… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system:… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When… — Allen West Copy Share Image
'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals.… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image