Quotes about class
class keys bourgeoisie
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them. Roland Barthes
class erosion gaps
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process. Susan George
class dancing diving
When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us. Susan Collins
class two personality
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness. Susan Cain
class actors able
I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us. Suresh Raina
class want england
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back. Sting
class interesting dropping-out
The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. Steve Jobs
class long saws
I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it. Miranda Cosgrove
class age firsts
I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class. Phil Collins
class criminals crime
I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes. Peter O'Toole
class australia kingdoms
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia. Peter Carey
class years goal
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be. Pete Sampras
class lessons knows
you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over! Pearl Cleage
class acting ham
I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess. Queen Latifah
class people african-american
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. Queen Latifah
class magazines irony
Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual smartness, the flat fashionable irony, meaningless because it proceeds from a frame of reference whose amorphous superiority is the most definite thing about it they are the trademark not simply of a magazine but of a class. Randall Jarrell
class friendly action
The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar. Ralph Waldo Emerson
class justice together
We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. Shirley Chisholm
class clown made
I made a living out of being a class clown Shannon Hoon
class two mind
The class warfare was in the script as well. It establishes what the world is like and what would happen if we really had two zones that were left and everybody had to survive using these two areas. What would our society to do with that set up? I wanted the state of world, in my mind, how it would actually realistically unfold. I drew that from what was in the script. Len Wiseman
class everyday cinema
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. Lavrenti Lopes
class race may
Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates". Neil Postman
class teens sign-language
I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn. Stephanie Beacham
class white america
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know? Vanilla Ice
class people india
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. V. S. Naipaul
class dancing work-out
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing. Suzanne Farrell
class ballet firsts
Treat each class as if it were your first. Suzanne Farrell
class waiting ambush
however, i can read hers- she'll be waiting to ambush you in class. Stephenie Meyer
class vanishing middle
There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing. Marc Andreessen
class feet
I was at the foot of my class. Thomas A. Edison
class leader establishment
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die. Tony Benn
class leisure transition
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. Thorstein Veblen
class aesthetic-beauty growth
The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths. Thorstein Veblen