Quotes by Class I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn. Randy Travis wantclassschool My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident. Rankin dadclassschool James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing. Raoul Peck identityclassworld The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary. Rashmi Bansal entrepreneurclassjobs In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class. Raul Castro partyexpressionclass If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class. Ray Floyd classtravelthinking Get off your sofa and pick your jawbones off the floor, that was a world-class save. Ray Hudson sofasclassworld I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level. Rashida Jones next-levellevelsclass They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity. Ray Davies mediocrityclasssex There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth. Ray Dalio growthclasstwo If you do it first class and you don't compromise values, and you don't compromise quality, and you don't compromise service, and you don't compromise cleanliness, then everybody else who is the competitor has got to play catch-up. Ray Kroc qualityplayclass A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. Ray Stannard Baker governmentlawclass Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came. Raymond Carver classdiscoveryphilosophy From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. Raymond Chandler womenclassfunny We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned. Raymond Williams middleclassthinking A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants. Raymond Williams trainingeducationclass I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on. Rebecca Skloot cellsclassfirsts Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer are showmen too; but they exploit what is already made. The showmen of Hollywood control the making - and thereby degrade it. For the basic art of motion pictures is the screenplay; it is fundamental, without it there is nothing. Everything derives from the screenplay, and most of that which derives is an applied skill which, however adept, is artistically not in the same class with the creation of a screenplay. Raymond Chandler playclassart There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous breakdowns and it would paralyze the state. That was the logic of aerial bombing. In fact, it doesn't happen at all, but the logic behind aerial bombing has never stopped, even though it never demoralizes, terrorizes, or paralyzes a population. Rebecca Solnit classwarpeople I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know. Redd Foxx classamericason«163164165166167168169170171172173»
