Class Quotes - Page 142

The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.

I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money.

I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.

I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.