Class Quotes

• Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Hours
  • Seems
  • Four

• You can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Meaning
  • Over
  • Lesson

• I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Firsts
  • Grades
  • Chad

• Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.

  

  Carol Browner
  • Cost
  • Drivers
  • Gas

• Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Class
  • Capitalism

• I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Travel
  • Class

• Every director should take an acting class.

  

  Paul Feig
  • Acting
  • Class
  • Director

• When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Men
  • Higher
  • Torture

• Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

  

  William Styron
  • Literature
  • Citizens
  • Island

• No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • Benefits
  • Particular
  • Amount

• Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

  

  Geoff Rickly
  • Virtue
  • Class
  • Universal

• You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • World
  • Class
  • Arsenal

• There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Political
  • Process
  • Social

• But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Girl
  • Class
  • Prettiest

• Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Real
  • Leadership
  • Accomplishment

• One big difference I’ve noticed is how class is experienced in both places. Even though America is so class-stratified, the idea that there is a national culture that transcends class is really present. In Iran, despite the revolution and its attempt to eliminate class as a category, there’s now political class. That’s different than social class, but it’s still very much infused with the nuance that comes from a class-stratified place.

  

  Azadeh Moaveni
  • America
  • Class
  • Stratified

• It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

  

  Catherine Mayer
  • Stills
  • Citizens
  • Absurd

• In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Proud
  • Groups
  • Roots

• The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

  

  Paul Goodman
  • Education
  • Humanity
  • Class

• I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Water
  • Ideas

• There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Girl
  • Care
  • Beach

• Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.

  

  Rhys Ifans
  • Feels
  • Hero
  • Grief

• In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

  

  Nigel Cole
  • Rich
  • Class
  • Changing

• I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Learned
  • Class
  • Lines

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