Upper Quotes
386 quotes by 342 authors
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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
— Sun Ra
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With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.
— Joe Scarborough
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We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount…
— Stacy Schiff
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I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the…
— Bobby Vinton
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort…
— N. T. Wright
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Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their…
— Clive James
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Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of…
— Leon Croizat
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Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.
— George Gershwin
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It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the…
— Terry Eagleton
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Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.
— Paul Keating
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I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian…
— Aravind Adiga
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Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside…
— Dale Archer
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I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most…
— Jeff Dunham
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The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper…
— Jeff Dunham
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The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had…
— Jim Gerlach
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I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
— Alan Furst
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I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.
— Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
— John Hodgman
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George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're…
— Peter York
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Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them…
— Peter York
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