Class Quotes - Page 110

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.

If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.

All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!

I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona.

I am doing a lot of work for my church, taking an evangelism class, doing a lot of reading - mostly the Bible and things that coordinate with the Bible and go with the evangelism class.

And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.

The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices help me to be aware of my body, my center, and how I move, both with my physical space and my mental space.

In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government.

Looks aren't the number one thing. They have to have class, intelligence, then looks. If I was the ugliest SOB in the world it would be a lot easier.

I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.