Quotes about class
classic inspired songwriting
Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting. Scott Weiland
class use reluctant
I'm reluctant to use the word class so much. Timothy West
class playwright elizabethan
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
class people want
I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. Timothy Spall
class white middle
There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS. Timothy Noah
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.
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.
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