Wordgrove Post & Review ~ 04-11-23

04/11/2023 by Dan Jack/BarTalk

THIS EDITION: class

Quoted In The Grove:
They had none of the usual English arrogance; they were simple honest hearts of that class of constant wanderers with which England covers the globe. The father was long and thin, with a red face framed in white whiskers, and looking like a living sandwich, a slice of ham cut in the shape of a head, placed between two wedges of hair.
~Guy de Maupassant

It may be that common ideas, or a common class, or race, draw men together; but not one of them equals in sheer magic the binding power of a good doughnut. After this experience I am sure of it. There we all were, picked up at random out of the flotsam of life — and like old friends…
~David Grayson

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn’t resemble the original dish at all.
~Drew Barrymore

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I tried yoga once but took off for the mall halfway through class, as I had a sudden craving for a soft pretzel and world peace.
~Terri Guillemets

Next Prompt • 04/25: rare

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
~Plato

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
~Oscar Wilde

Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
~Publilius Syrus

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
~Benjamin Franklin

We’re uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It’s classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
~Jared Diamond

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
~Daniel Radcliffe

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
~John Madden (NFL)

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
~Bear Bryant (NCAA coach)

In others it is omitted from the equipment because it proves too attractive and disrupts regular class work in gymnastics. There is not a director of a gymnasium who has not at times wished that there was no such game as basketball.
~James Naismith (game’s creator)

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is… I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I’m out there, I’m getting the nice hotel suite, I’m getting the luxury car, I’m eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.
~Trish Stratus (WWE)

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.
~Ray Floyd (PGA)

In America there are two classes of travel — first class, and with children.
~Robert Benchley

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
~Theodore White

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
~Paulo Coelho

Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
~Orson Welles

Criminals are the sauce of classic theater and TV. It is the rich getting richer, and the rest trying to get there. Comedy, drama, tragedy, they mine the criminal element because we all are.
~author unknown

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
~Ernest Shackleton

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.
~Abraham Lincoln

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
~Margaret Mead

Posted From The Grove

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
~Annie Besant

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
~Raoul Vaneigem

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

Another bad symptom is the disposition to make the lower classes interesting at the expense of the higher, — winking at the selfishness of human nature in the one case, and exaggerating it in the same proportion in the other; thus fanning the flame of that frightful antagonism between rich and poor. We all know that in Rome it preceded the abolition of liberty.
~Charles Forbes René de Montalembert

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
~Christopher Dawson

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
~B R Ambedkar

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
~Lord Acton

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
~Karl Marx

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don’t mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
~Toni Morrison

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
~Alexis de Tocqueville

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
~Mao Zedong

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
~Friedrich Engels

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
~Roy Jenkins

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.
~Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
~John Podhoretz

For the ruling class, in general, politics is a question of aesthetics: a way of seeing themselves, of seeing the world, of constructing a personality. For us it was life or death.
~Édouard Louis

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
~Voltaire

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
~Gore Vidal

There’s class warfare, all right. But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
~Warren Buffet

The cure for capitalism’s failings would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone…
~Robert L Heilbroner

All too often, government’s response to social breakdown has been a classic case of ‘patching’ – a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting – even reinforcing – dysfunctional behaviour.
~Iain Duncan Smith

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
~Plato

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class ‒ it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
~Anna Julia Cooper

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
~Calvin Coolidge (R)

The disappearance of class distinctions is, however, far from complete. In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. There is on this subject a profound and widespread hypocrisy whenever people talk in general terms.
~Bertrand Russell

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is the inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.
~Orestes A Brownson

While there is a lower class I am in it;
While there is a criminal element I am of it;
While there’s a soul in prison I am not free.
~Eugene V Debs

People can become monster-like when their economic expectations come under attack. The widening income gap and hollowing out of the middle class are prompting Americans to rage against others who are superficially different from them, closing their eyes to the humanity of their fellow citizens…
~Robin R Bates

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
~Victor Hugo

To believe in liberal democracy is to believe that there is more good will in society than ill will; more ground for agreement than disagreement; more things that the majority of people want to preserve and cherish than they want to destroy; more that they love than that they hate; more to unite men and classes than to divide them; and that to find these principles of unity and agreement, through deliberation and compromise, is the duty of civilized human beings.
~Dorothy Thompson

Look, I want what’s good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can’t they all just do what I say when I know I’m right?
~Arabella Weir

But, after all, what you want is votes, is it not? It would be so encouraging to see virtue win, that everybody would vote for you thereafter. Why don’t you manage it somehow? This sort of talk is the best record of incompetence which corruption has imprinted. Enlighten this class and you have saved the Republic.
~John Jay Chapman

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.
~Thomas Carper

Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress’s decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
~William J Brennan, Jr

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
~Leland Stanford

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
~Ralph Chaplin

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
~Barack Obama

The unions say ‘last hired – first fired,’, we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
~Scott Walker

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.
~Michael Gove

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
~Agnes Smedley

I don’t know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It’s very much about the class structure.
~Daniel Radcliffe

The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.
~James Stewart

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into – they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
~Michael Gove

When I want to distinguish clearly the aristocratic class from the Philistines proper or middle class, I name the former, in my own mind the Barbarians.
~Matthew Arnold

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
~Ben Kingsley

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
~Nancy Mitford

We’re seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
~Patricia Hewitt

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
~Leonard Woolf

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
~Lionel Trilling

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
~Michel Foucault

If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
~Bill Gates

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
~Vladimir Lenin

Washington’s answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The ‘fiscal cliff’ process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation’s so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems
~Ron Fournier

When I came to the CIA in the mid-’90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.
~George Tenet

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
~Henry A Wallace

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
~George Orwell

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
~Paul Robeson

Throughout this country’s history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
~Eric Liu

My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And – Americans want – Americans I hope – aspire to be – be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that’s going on now. And I don’t agree with that. I’m interested in people getting to work.
~Rick Perry

We have an incredible warrior class in this country – people in law enforcement, intelligence – and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.
~Brad Thor

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
~Albert Einstein

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
~Mother Jones

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.
~Lyman Trumbull

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
~George Bancroft

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.
~Hillary Clinton

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
~Marian Wright Edelman

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
~Frederick Douglass

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
~Paul Ryan

Sociologists call the process of the melting pot “social mobility.” One of America’s characteristics has always been the lack of a rigid class structure. It has traditionally been possible for people to move up the social and economic scale.
~John F Kennedy

In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
~William Tecumseh Sherman

Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
~Jonathan Sacks

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.
~Mike Judge

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn’t be trusted.
~Mike Shinoda

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
~Kurt Vonnegut

~Simon Raven: Class (1:16) goodly number of people saying the same word, eyes and expressions are the best

~Paty Loren Solorzano: Exit Interview: Class, Class, Class (4:21) dance, dance, dance

~Jesus Canales: The Office • Classy (1:53) …not, but fun, yes

~Craig McGee: CMH Classic (4:14) beauty of snowy crags and skiing down them

~The Corpfa: I have no words left (4:35) circle-of-life, borders on inspirational

I’d like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it’s probably more like a TV reality show.
~Uma Thurman

I can put my legs behind my head and sing ‘Happy Birthday.’ Because that’s something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.
~Emmy Rossum

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.
~Jim Carrey

I don’t think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I’ll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us.
~Steven Moffat

You know the funny thing, I don’t get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.
~Donald Trump

I am a well-known elitist. I don’t even own a pair of trainers. If I did, I am sure they would be very fragrant.
~Lord Gowrie

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I’m too classy to bring that up.
~Todd Barry (psychic/comic)

Let the others have the charisma. I’ve got the class.
~George Bush

There must always be an element of self-sacrifice, effacement, and an appreciation of the seriousness of the work. There is no class of persons who come so close to the tragedies of life as does the nurse…
~Charlotte A Brown

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don’t travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
~Gene Simmons

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we’re enjoying it, but I’d stop if it’s not possible.
~Shia LaBeouf

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
~Major Taylor (world’s first black sports superstar)

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There’s a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.
~Pete du Pont

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within ‘black community’ by and large.
~Henry Louis Gates

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
~Toni Morrison

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children’s education.
~Spike Lee

Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
~Barack Obama

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
~Nina Simone

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The requisites for success are the same in all classes of business: good judgment, application, diplomacy, executive ability, nerve, push, sticktoitiveness, integrity, a thick skin, and a pleasant smile.
~C A Morse

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
~Arthur Cohn

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.
~Spencer Bachus

There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor.
~John Ruskin

Don’t be classed as Idle Freight.
Work your Passage! Pull your Weight!
~Arthur Guiterman

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people – the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
~A N Wilson

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
~Gary Oldman

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don’t need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don’t really need.
~Chuck Palahniuk

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
~William R Inge

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
~Beah Richards

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
~Andrew Carnegie

Money doesn’t buy class.
~Kiana Tom

Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
~Spike Milligan

Not everybody is created equal, and it’s important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.
~Anne M Mulcahy

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
~John McKinley

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
~Mitt Romney

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
~Oscar Wilde

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Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the ‘rich’ is likely to result in an economic burnout.
~Terry Savage

You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
~Andrew Cuomo

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
~William Graham Sumner

In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is so significant of character that one might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
~Max Beerbohm

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
~Holbrook Jackson

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
~Nicolas Chamfort

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.
~Dwight Morrow

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
~Thomas Fuller

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
~King Abdullah II

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
~Howard Zinn

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
~Jon Meacham

Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.
~Ayn Rand

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we’re all partially different – it’s no good imposing systems on people that it doesn’t suit.
~Damian Lewis

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
~Mitch Daniels

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
~Barack Obama

We are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
~R D Laing

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
~Orson Welles

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
~Jaron Lanier

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
~Napoleon Hill

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That’s what I like about film ‒ it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
~Catherine Deneuve

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It’s why he found shooting on set boring – because he had already composed the film in his head.
~Camille Paglia

I became a set designer for opera. I’m a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
~Maurice Sendak

And I thought, when I have kids, that’s the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think “Shrek” is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.
~Mike Myers

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 is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
~Roger Ebert

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated – I mean that I was just vilified for – are now looked at as classics.
~John Milius

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That’s why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
~Vivien Leigh

Above all, our language is ‘middle-class’ in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.
~Christian Morgenstern

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it’s packaged as the Night Out, then that’s the death of it.
~Ralph Fiennes

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To make films like ‘X-Men’ work commercially – and also have some class – is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be ‘fair dinkum,’ as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.
~Hugh Jackman

I would like to be as fit as I’ve always been. I’ve been blessed with good health, I’ve been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.
~Derek Jacobi

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
~James Earl Jones

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.
~Michael Welch

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
~Michael York

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
~Tim Robbins

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
~Arne Jacobsen

Suddenly I’ve got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
~Sylvester Stallone

~Omeleto: Class (18:00) acting class, or cult?

~Neel Kolhatkar: Modern Educayshun (7:10) woke weaponized

~Omelto: Get Ready With Me (29:22) going viral

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
~Charles Eames

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
~Max Eastman

There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
~Mao Zedong

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
~Clara Zetkin

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
~Camille Paglia

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
~Elia Kazan

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I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body… I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It’s just beautiful to me.
~Diane Kruger

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It’s not only using your mind, it’s like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
~Zoe Saldana

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.
~Danny Pudi

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that’s put into your head. You are never thin enough.
~Carmen Electra

…the cooking classes he teaches at his studio, he likes to challenge people. He asks them to snort cocoa… he dares people to taste mealworms and insects.
~Arnold Van Huis, Henk Van Gurp, Marcel Dicke (The Insect Cookbook)

§ MUSIC:

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
~Roland Barthes

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
~Satyajit Ray

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
~Cyril Connolly

Conductors’ careers are made for the most part with ‘Romantic’ music. ‘Classic’ music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
~Igor Stravinsky

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that’s what I really like.
~Joan Armatrading

I’m not really involved with politics… I’m living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
~Eva Green

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
~Novak Djokovic

I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.
~Stephen Hawking

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I’m more likely to listen to rock music.
~Tony Blair

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
~Brett Favre

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
~Ted Nugent

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
~Billy Joel

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
~Gary Oldman

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
~Eddie Van Halen

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
~Michael Tilson Thomas

Maybe I’m genetically more inclined to music – but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
~Norah Jones

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
~Haley Reinhart

Although my dad was a doctor, we weren’t necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.
~Lisa Loeb

It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
~Stevie Nicks

I wasn’t the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!
~Katherine Jenkins

You’re now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli, and I think that’s why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.
~Katherine Jenkins

Oh, stuff the critics. I don’t care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn’t brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.
~Katherine Jenkins

~Charles Deluvio: Classy (3:53) sweet ballad to the anonymous

~Gaither Music TV: Statler Brothers • Class of ’57 (2:33) nostalgia, different roads and tight harmonies

~John Lennon: Working Class Hero • Green Day (5:09) specifically political

~savannasaurus: Guided by Voices: Class Clown Spots a UFO (3:16) rock and retro-sci-fi saucers

~Lee Brice: Drinking Class (3:35) working hard, country proud

~arielamaaro: Stay Classy (4:28) whites rappin’ fun, plus one

~Randy Travis: Better Class of Losers (2:40) country mouse/city mouse dynamic

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
~Queen Latifah

It’s sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn’t ‘Thelma and Louise’ prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck – and women loved it.
~Robin Quivers

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
~Brit Marling

For centuries women were content to be classed as second-rate men. Those who attempted to rise out of their dependency and inferiority were usually promptly burned as witches. Women had no chance to earn their living independently, and perforce, were constrained to remain at home and do the world’s dirty work.
~W Béran Wolfe, MD

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
~Barbra Streisand

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.
~Dennis Kucinich

Women are still second-class citizens.
~Joan Jett

At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won’t be imprisoned anymore… The anger of midlife is a ferocious anger. In our twenties, with success and motherhood still before us, we could imagine that something would save us from second-classness — either achievement or marriage or motherhood. Now we know that nothing can save us. We have to save ourselves.
~Erica Jong

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
~Michelle Obama

The only hope for the human race is the conscious elimination of all overcrowded lives before their conception, by planning only to conceive those for whom adequate provision of material necessities and a loving welcome are reasonably to be anticipated. When once the women of all classes have the fear and dread of undesired maternity removed them from, they will be free to put all their strength into creating desired and beautiful children.
~Marie Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958)

I’d listen to them better if they took better care of the sacred lives they fight so hard to get born if they cared about them after. …so it’s either sanctimonious lies or a second-class bible they’re preaching.
~author unknown

The childbirth class neglected to teach you a critical skill. How to swear, breathe and count all at the same time.
~Linda Fiterman

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
~Camille Paglia

There is still the feeling that women’s writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a lesser category of knowledge.
~Erica Jong

I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn’t afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it’s cool if she’s a tomboy.
~Chris Brown

I’ve always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I’d like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.
~Kelly Brook

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
~George Bernard Shaw

Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that’s only expedited by ‘Out of sight, out of mind.’ But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It’s a high-class problem, but it’s real.
~Hank Azaria

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
~Lance Loud

I’d like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it’s probably more like a TV reality show.
~Uma Thurman

There’s a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You’re left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships.
~Nancy Meyers

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I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
~Chevy Chase

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw ‘How to be a Stand-up Comedian,’ it resonated. I realized I’d rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.
~Wendy Liebman

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings – by classmates, not the nuns – was to be the funny guy.
~George A Romero

I had no interest in sports so I didn’t make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
~Zach Braff

I actually was class clown, but I don’t know how that happened because I’ve never been considered an outwardly funny person.
~Janeane Garofalo

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I’d been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn’t have been a comic.
~Dudley Moore

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen… The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I’ve always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.
~Jeff Daniels

I didn’t plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it’s juvenile, but that’s me.
~Jimmy Carr

I didn’t go into this business to do action because I’m a classically trained actor. But I’m good at kicking and punching.
~Wesley Snipes

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
~Mark Twain

Of course, one advantage of a dictatorship is that you don’t need a civics class to understand how it works.
~Robert Brault

Anything you are ashamed to have the postmaster or postmistress read, and therefore seal up, is known as first-class matter. Also, postal cards, where you’re only allowed to argue on one side. If you think your letter should travel slowly, invest ten cents in a Special Delivery Stamp. This will insure a nice, leisurely journey, lasting from one to two days longer than by the cheap two-cent route.
~Charles Wayland Towne

There are secrets I would not reveal under torture. I mean, there would have to be a silence at a cocktail party, or you would have to be sitting next to me in tourist class.
~Robert Brault

Kids in the future will have to endure an entire school year of History class devoted just to the year 2020.
~Internet meme

I can’t wait until New Year’s Day 2021 — then I can say hindsight really is 2020.
~Internet meme

Us middle class never have to worry about having old furniture to point out to our friends. We buy it on payments, and before it’s paid for, it’s plenty antique.
~Will Rogers

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you’re either paranoid or a member of the middle class.
~Robert Brault

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
~Phyllis Schlafly

I couldn’t help where I was born. I just wanted to be near my mother at the time.
~George Bush

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
~Kin Hubbard

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.
~Russell Baker

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
~Finley Peter Dunne

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
~Gracie

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A new classification of society to be instituted. Instead of rich and poor, high and low, they are to be classed, — First, by their sorrows… Secondly, all who have the same maladies… Thirdly, all who are guilty of the same sins, whether the world knows them or not… Then proceed to generalize and classify the whole world together, as none can claim utter exemption from either sorrow, sin, or disease; and if they could, yet Death, like a great parent, comes and sweeps them all through one darksome portal, — all his children.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
~Gary Ryan Blair

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

I find four great classes of students:
The dumb who stay dumb;
The dumb who become wise;
The wise who go dumb;
The wise who remain wise.
~Martin H Fischer

Einstein was once quoted as saying that in the society of Australian aborigines, he would rightfully be regarded as intellectually deficient for not being able to track a wallaby or throw a boomerang. If the aborigine ever did get around to drafting an IQ test, all of western civilization would presumably flunk it… Testing and teaching materials must clearly take cognizance of cultural and class differences if the true potential of the individual child is to be recognized and realized.
~Whitney M Young, Jr

I’m from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
~Billy Corgan

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
~Gary Locke

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
~Bob Taft

Since my retirement, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can’t afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
~Charles Kuralt

The fact is that the ability to read, write, talk and understand has in our time become a survival tool, just as the flint ax was a survival tool for our ancestors… We don’t have to become highbrows or intellectuals to remain free. But we do have to be able to communicate with each other, learn from each other, judge our leaders and our laws. Democracy and literacy go together.
~Clifton Fadiman

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
~Katarina Witt

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
~Victoria Abril

My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I’m traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
~Karlie Kloss

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
~Major Owens

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
~Clifford Stoll

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!
~Julie Bowen (Modern Family)

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn’t pass my friend’s sixth-grade class.
~Michelle Williams

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We’ve got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
~Chuck Norris

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher’s salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
~Major Owens

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
~George Orwell

Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven’t got a daughter!
~Chris Colfer

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class – I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.
~Eva Green

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
~John Glover

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.
~Petra Nemcova

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for ‘Wedding Crashers,’ and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.
~Rachel McAdams

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
~Brooke Shields

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn’t a religion major really.
~Maggie Gyllenhaal

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys’ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
~Keanu Reeves

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
~William Hazlitt

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
~Mark Kennedy

A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
~Robert M Hutchins

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
~Danica McKellar

But books are good only as far as a boy is ready for them. He sometimes gets ready very slowly. You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows…
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child’s learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
~James S Coleman

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
~Arne Duncan

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
~Burl Ives

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I’m this guy who comes in from book – and movie – land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.
~Richard Price

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
~Roger Moore

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
~Vladimir Nabokov

I had had a classical education prior to that.
~Skitch Henderson

In the ideal classroom, the teacher is either spending all of their time doing deep interventions with students on a one-on-one basis or facilitating true interactivity – labs, simulations, projects.
~Salman Khan

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year’s regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.
~Victor Salva

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
~Norman MacCaig

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
~Roy Barnes

@Writers Platform

Classics are books that everybody talks about, and nobody reads.
~author unknown

I do not wish to be misunderstood or to do any wrong to the bookworm, a class to whom I feel most kindly. They generally spend their years and money in the endeavor to climb as high as possible on the ladder of mental perfection, and they out not to be ridiculed…
~Gustav Boehm

Let there remain a tribe of book-worms still; and Heaven forbid that the classics should fall into contempt!
~Harriet Martineau

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
~Howard Nemerov

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
~Robertson Davies

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order – poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
~John Drinkwater

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
~A R Ammons

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
~Hu Shih

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
~Andrea Arnold

There is a certain class of men in almost every community, who take pleasure in sneering at those who follow literature as a profession…. They look upon the man of letters as one prone to build airy castles, continually longing for pleasures which can never be realized, or as a mere day-dreamer. They think it would be better if all men were mechanics, or merchants, or farmers, and that man was made to plod through life with no higher aim than to satisfy his sensual desires! How foolish, how despicable are such ideas.
~Charles Lanman

Erasmus (1466–1536) published three widely reprinted and much used commonplace books… The quotations, adages, proverbs, brief narratives, excerpts, anecdotes, compiler comments, etc. broke down the whole of classical antiquity into bite-size snippets of sayings that could be introduced into discourse either in whole or paraphrased.
~Bill Katz

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
~Samuel Johnson

The man who keeps a commonplace-book too often resembles the dog which carefully buries a bone for future use, yet seldom or never returns to dig it up; and it is positively pathetic to think of the intellectual dainties which probably lie buried in many a pale and faded volume of this class.
~Patrick Maxwell

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
~Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

[He] crashed through the classics like a bull in a china-shop…
~Rupert Hughes

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
~Italo Calvino

§ The Glass Table:

Does

Does a Comet ever burn as bright
if there’s no one to see it soar through the night

Does the sun lose its brilliant heat
like two hearts whose love they never meet

Do the stars fade away and dim
like the passing of a frivolous whim

Do dreams burn away and end
if there’s no hope to carry them like wind

Does a lonely heart forever yearn
like solar flares that ever burn…
~Greenie

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
~Anne Lamott (in The Last Class)

To come down to my own experience, my companion and I, for I sometimes have a companion, take pleasure in fancying ourselves knights of a new, or rather an old, order, — not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more ancient and honorable class, I trust.
~Henry David Thoreau

As for cars, they were in a class apart, somewhere between furniture and dogs. …that had acquired at least the status of a room in one’s house.
~Jan Struther (minimally amended for clarity)

It is now our terrestrial experience that whenever economic and political developments set a class free to travel, that class at once begins to travel… even for the commonest people.
~H G Wells

I went to England in the ’70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn’t regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
~Geoffrey Rush

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
~Sting

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society – at least on the surface. There’s a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They’re not too loud, they’re not too quiet, but sometimes it’s a little too perfect.
~Alexander Skarsgard

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That’s my style, and that’s what my work is about.
~Giambattista Valli

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My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
~Graham Norton

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.
~Melanie Brown (Spice Girls)

I’m sure everything has a bearing on what I’m doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there’s lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that’s about the education level we had in the family.
~Muhammad Yunus (Bangladeshis, Nobel Peace)

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
~Patrick J Kennedy

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
~H Rap Brown

The father of a daughter, for example, is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, Daddy, I need to ask you something, he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. The butter thinks to itself, This time I really am going to remain rectangular, and then it feels very relaxed, and then it smells smoke.
~Garrison Keillor

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
~Armstrong Williams

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren’t glued to computers because they didn’t exist, so being active was all we knew.
~Lisa Loeb

As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
~Joe Bob Briggs

I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.
~Tom Hardy

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.
~Toby Young

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
~Kurt Cobain

Prewritten Prompt: class

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don’t come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.
~Dixie Lee Ray

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
~Philip Schaff

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
~Tony Campolo

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God…
~Desmond Tutu

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
~Robert Bork

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Spiders have the brains of first-class mathematicians.
~Charles-Noël Martin

No class of artists excels the humming-birds. Their nests are wonders of beauty, delicacy, and architecture — plant down and dried flower petals held together with silvery spider’s web, exquisitely decorated with greyish-white lichens.
~Royal Dixon

What an uncanny mysterious creature a bat is!… They class themselves in our mind with those few animals which seem to belong to a bygone age… There is somewhat reptilian to them — dragonlike…
~William Gardner Barton

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
~Alfred Austin

Science is the systematic classification of experience.
~George Henry Lewes

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
~Robert Ballard

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
~Martin Fleischmann

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
~Roland Joffe

The social energy which maintains the class structure produces perverted culture in its three chief forms: mere upper-class culture, or ostentation, mere middle-class culture, or vulgarity, and mere lower-class culture, or squalor.
~Northrop Frye

The thing that attracts me to the upper-middle class is not any thought of pomp or glory. It’s just that middle age starts later there. I have been reading a report from the University of Chicago… which says that upper-middle-class men believe that middle age starts at 47. This is the best offer you can get. In the lower-middle-class it’s 45, while in the upper-lower and lower-lower it’s 40.
~Bill Vaughan

Stop eating when you have satisfied the demands of nature. There is a class of people who think that the great and only sin of intemperance is in drinking…
~F J Groner, MD

The first purpose of clothes, as our Professor of Things in General imagines, was not warmth or decency, but ornament. Says he, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is Decoration, as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.
~Thomas Carlyle

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.
~Marilu Henner

In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
~Stephen Jay Gould

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That’s a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
~Kevin Mitnick

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.
~Kevin Mitnick

§ The Exercise:

awkward

classy with fashion
with and without clothes
read all the classics
spouted classless quotes
adored classical music
writing witty notes
grad class of aught-when
inhaled thoughts by historic rote
but in spite of the honor
merely pretended to vote

goals

stigmatize realities
recast the past as biased
reject classic as unchaste
reweave history with gauze
conjugate identities
legislate personalities
define the boundaries of love
legalize the acceptable self
stand in the way of the next generation
anything to keep the future from winning

silly ditty #11

upperclass, as in cold
student class, as in told
underclass, as in scold
losing hand, as in fold

warrior class , as in bold
slavery class, as in sold
monied class, as in gold
condolences, as in doled

tourist class, as in the hold
senior class, as in getting old
english class, as in mold or mould
poetry, a thing quickly scrolled

questionable

mind half-stewed
basted in brew
déclassé
unglued
rude extrapolated
multiplied magnitudes
insufferable
to the point
of despicable
troll-speak
sometimes the truth
rarely

ditty #11

direct infect
suspect insect
inspect suspect
detect defect
dissect ‘n reject
correct to protect
direct, except
selection hexed
abject object
class project

5s ‘n 7s

Born into hope at War’s end
allowed their brand of birthright
stoked fires, science and empire
to reach and hold and measure
a greed for knowledge and gain
reasoned curiosity
deserted class for cold cash

classically dressed lassie
versus brassy red chasis
covered skin-bones or fleshy
colored skin tones or flashy
classy or sassy or both

post-war baby boom
knew conscience once, went for gold
us now :: them later
used up world, left waste behind
boomers: class of ill-repute

Joker as convict
discarded card from the deck
class clown future star

classless and clueless
but a short cunning linguist
smart women his taste

The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
~James Madison

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
~Bernard Shaw

I’ll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
~Noel Coward

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
~Aristotle

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I’d bring things to class that I’d cooked at home.
~Giada De Laurentiis

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.
~Dan Savage

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
~Ann Landers

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
~Ann Landers

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.
Alice Munro

I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there’s a touch of class involved.
~Frank W Abagnale

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
~Keanu Reeves

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
~Denzel Washington

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
~Paul Fussell

I graduated a the top of my class in the ’84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
~Scott Hamilton

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it’s not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
~John le Carre

I didn’t come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I’m proud of that.
~Kid Rock

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It’s the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
~Ann Landers

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn’t subject to scientific analysis, and it’s not supposed to be real but it’s pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.
~Jo Walton

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
~Paul H Dunn

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
~Noam Chomsky

Whatever I do, I hope it’s quality, I hope it’s something that’s class.
~Garth Brooks

What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.
~Charlie Sheen

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
~Gary Ryan Blair

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Editor’s Note: Referencing a previous question, this reminder: the tilde (~) appears thru’out the Post & Review for two reasons.
The ~ hints wonderfully at the curves of a woman, a breed apart for understanding the variety available in the ways of communicating. The tilde also reminds of music, and the instruments used in creating its different experience, a language and class of expression without barriers and lies.

The Olio
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