Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Stein

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Gertrude Stein

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

Hal Holbrook

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

Gore Vidal

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

H. Rap Brown

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Graham Swift

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.

I fill in for her sometimes and I get to talk to her before I go to class.

I definitely want to do this for the rest of my life, whether I do it professionally or just for fun. Hopefully I will get to do some big classes like World Cup.

I don't think there's any question that coach Weis is going to turn things around. It's just a gut feeling I've had for the last three or four months. I think he'll be able to do a lot with the program with the new facilities, this recruiting class and the next one. I don't think there's any reason why the program can't be headed into a direction of greatness. I have extremely high expectations.

Joe Taslim

I don't take acting classes - I'm quite an autodidact. I prefer to learn from other actors by watching various movies. Evaluate my acting, spot the flaws and fix them.

I do think there are more classes on the way and I think there will be a loss of identity for a lot of small schools.

I feel as a small class, it doesn't present a problem, ... I feel no zoning laws are being violated.

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.

Christian McKay

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

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

Alexander Kluge

We are not just representing the cultural magazines here, but also an investigative journalistic position which is part of the classic public sphere.

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

The defendant violated his pledge to protect classified information. He compromised national security and the system that protects it.

John Miller

Three-quarters of Tribune's revenue is still publishing, ... The national advertisers will start to return, as will the classified and help-wanted when the economy recovers.

We've got snowmobile races and go-kart classes for all the kids. We have a class for just about everyone who comes out, from those just starting out to those more experienced racers.