Class Quotes
4175 quotes by 2930 authors
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There are days when you just don't feel all that evil." You don't become a world-class villain overnight." -Dr. Impossible
— Austin Grossman
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The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the…
— Arundhati Roy
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It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments…
— George Carlin
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In the two months I had also dated Justin Fellowes, this guy in my Spanish class, though after three weeks we decided we should "see…
— Deb Caletti
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Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens…
— Nick Hornby
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To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all…
— Joseph Heller
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You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and…
— John Green
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I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
— John McPhee
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The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41
— William S. Burroughs
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Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.
— Deb Caletti
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No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of…
— William L. Shirer
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I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
— Peter O'Toole
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What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more…
— David Foster Wallace
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She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period,…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
— Nick Cave
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...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!
— Pearl Cleage
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If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably…
— Joe Bageant
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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed…
— George Washington
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If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris…
— Sarah Vowell
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