Quotes about class
class innovation characteristics
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. Thorstein Veblen
class voice people
People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer. Tom Kenny
class age culture
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. Tom Hooper
class people long
Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing. Tom Vilsack
class broken growing
We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle. Vijay Mallya
class two widowhood
Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved. Victor Robinson
class race notable
So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo? Victor Davis Hanson
class humanity les-mis
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo
class smirk brilliant
Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks. Veronica Roth
class suffering outsiders
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. Rita Mae Brown
class differences people
There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
class support relief
I strongly support tax relief for the middle class. Rick Larsen
class two oil
LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread between two different kinds of shares of Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Now that seems completely unrelated to Russian bonds. But they were related because other hedge funds saw similar discrepancies and they were all making similar bets. Richard Thaler
classic certain fray
I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray. Renee Fleming
class perfect temptation
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. Thomas Paine
class sublime steps
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
class two age
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. Thomas de Quincey
class generations graduates
There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat. Timothy Garton Ash
class agendas alive
There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda. Tom Peters
class attention movement
I really want the audience to place close attention to the movement, possibilities of movement, possibilities of trespassing boundaries and observe what's possible in different social settings, and different settings of class designation as well. Todd Haynes
class our-world alliances
This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities. Steve Fisher
class comedian firsts
I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom. Steve Harvey
class people records
There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about. Steve Albini
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 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.
class opponents middle
One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class. Scott Walker
class ideas political
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.' Steven Pinker
class want might
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.
class criticism today
Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.
class vinegar handbags
I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor. Sue Townsend
class people like-me
I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go. Richard Simmons