Class Quotes - Page 28

• I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a variant form of upper-class politics and self-privileging.

  Jack D. Forbes

  Self, Feminism, Doe

  "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism".

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• To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

  Joseph Heller

  Ideas, Tennis, Trophies

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and was now reciting it. "But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there," he said, nodding toward the lake and beyond.' ~Dr. Hyde, pg 50

  John Green

  Buddhist, Lakes, Interesting

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.54, Penguin

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• I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

  John McPhee

  Airplane, Floating, Paper

  John McPhee (1982). “Basin and Range”, p.25, Macmillan

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• The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

  William S. Burroughs

  Citizens, Composites

  "Junkie". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1953.

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• Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.

  Deb Caletti

  Jesus, Math, Cracks

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.

  William L. Shirer

  Party, Responsibility, Errors

  William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

  Peter O'Toole

  Criminals, Crime, Working Class

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• What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

  David Foster Wallace

  Teacher, Taken, Issues

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Oblivion: Stories”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Years, Hot, Relief

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• In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Pants, Hysterical

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• ...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Country, Blue, Land

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.113, Oxford University Press

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• Vee lowered her lashes and smiled wickedly. "This class isn't going to teach me anything I don't already know." "Vee? As in virgin?" "Not so loud." She winked just as the bell rang, sending us both to our seats, which were side by side at our shared table.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Bells, Tables, Sides

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.

  Joe Bageant

  Exercise, Doors, Police

  Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• Science is an investigation," Coach said, sanding his hands together. "Science requires us to transform into spies." Put that way, science almost sounded fun. But I'd been in Coach's class long enough not to get my hopes up.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fun, Hands, Long

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

  Sarah Vowell

  Spring, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Sep 05, 2015

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• I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around some guy she'd just sacrificed to a heathen god. That image worked way better.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Guy, Way, Forests

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.35, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Mr. Crossley suddenly wondered why he was why he was worrying about the note. It was only a joke, after all. He cleared his throat. Everyone looked up hopefully. 'Somebody,' said Mr. Crossley, 'seems to have sent me a Halloween message.' And he read out the note: 'SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH.' 6B thought this was splendid news. Hands shot up all over the room like a bed of beansprouts. 'It's me, Mr. Crossley!' 'Mr. Crossley, I'm the witch!' 'Can I be the witch, Mr. Crossley?' 'Me, Mr. Crossley, me, me, me!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Halloween, Hands, Worry

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• I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!

  J. K. Rowling

  Dying, Looks, Look At Me

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• It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Passion, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.90, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Blue, Rose

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I don’t know what I saw. It could’ve been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue.” “You’ve never sniffed glue!” “I’ve smelled glue,” Jamie said after a pause. “In art class.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Art, Glue, Hallucinations

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Passion, People

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The picture of Dorian Gray/Le portrait de Dorian Gray”, p.60, Oscar Wilde

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• Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Rose, Culinary

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• Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville; Quelle est cette langueur Qui penetre mon coeur? Then she looks up and without any warning she calls on me to translate it. I swallow hard, and try: "It's raining in my heart like it's raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?" Saying these words out loud, right in front of the whole class, makes me feel like I'm not wearing any clothes.

  Sonya Sones

  Rain, Reading, Heart

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