Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Charles Dickens

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.

David Brooks

Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

Denis Waitley

You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest.

Benjamin Spock

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

Bernard Goldberg

I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

What the public wasn't envisioning was a swim through, swim with the dolphins kind of thing. They were looking for a truer aquarium, so the plan has developed into a classic aquarium with of course interactive features.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him.

Charles Trevelyan

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

Charlaine Harris

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.

Natalie Portman

I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

Alexandra Robbins

When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

Calvin Trillin

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Aya Cash

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

We knew we were getting close to moving from a class 3 to a class 2 county in West Virginia. And that's determined by the gross assessed evaluation in the county.

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.

Naomi Wolf

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

Charlie Trotter

I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.

We are dealing with classified material we are about to disclose. The government is just covering its tracks here.

When designing the Oscars, I try to make the current show as different from the year before as possible. Last year's show was distinguished by a hi-tech, 'cutting-edge' style. So this year, there's nothing hi-tech -- it's a no-holds-barred return to classic Hollywood glamour, paying homage to old movie theaters.

Nolan Gould

I always put a lot of priority on my education, even if that means taking classes after work or on the weekends.

Art Bell

Toxic language creates a hostile work environment -- and that's now illegal, ... Just as sexual harassment was ruled by the courts to create a hostile work environment for classes of employees protected under EEOC and Title VII laws, so toxic language poses similar legal liabilities. Companies are being sued today for the language used by bosses.

Padma Lakshmi

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

Dave Tippett

We were all right. I wouldn't class that as a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination - from play to officiating to the whole works.

We are opening an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified materials related to the NSA.

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'

Denise Mina

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

Kim Basinger

I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time