Class Quotes - Page 30

• 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

  Powerful, Real, Magic

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.66, Macmillan

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• Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.

  Francine Prose

  Self, Important, Use

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• What bothered me most was their lack of style. 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 Abagnale

  Style, Faults, Sin

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• If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Daughter, Equality, Boss

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Expression, Ideas

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.16, Haymarket Books

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• You know how teachers tell you the magic word is 'please'? That's not true. The magic word is 'puke'. It will get you out of class faster than anything else.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Magic, Faster

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• In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

  Karl Marx

  Revenge, Sight, Order

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.36, Haymarket Books

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• Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like.

  Jodi Picoult

  Struggle, Kids, Math

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.

  Jo Walton

  Real, People, Magic

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off.

  Darynda Jones

  Anger, Training, Management

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.58, Macmillan

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• She doesn’t usually back down that easily.” “Maybe she’s got class.” Eve snorted. “Trust me,” she said. “That girl’s got no class at all.

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Trust Me, Said

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.92, Penguin

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• Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

  Candace Bushnell

  Art, Money, Real

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• The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was really quite pretty (and also quite shocking!) and I noticed she had a mouth, so we ended up talking. We talked about flowers, and her poetry classes, and the problems she'd have if she ever wore glasses. It's great to know a girl who has so many eyes, but you really get wet when she breaks down and cries.

  Tim Burton

  Girl, Flower, Eye

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• I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

  Alice Sebold

  Curious, Science Class

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Beautiful, Vanity, Effort

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.

  Frank Portman

  Lying, Mean, Trying

  Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.238, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution. Their eyes almost invariably hanker after that most irritating and morbid of colours, with its artificial splendours and feverish acrid gleams,-orange.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Eye, Men, Organization

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Real, War, Atheism

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• I sit at a table close to his desk. Ivy is in this class. She sits by the door. I keep staring at her, trying to make her look at me. That happens in movies - people can feel it when oother people stare at them and they just have to turn around and say something. Either Ivy has a great force field, or my lazer vision isn't very strong.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Strong, Force Fields, Doors

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• Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

  Vladimir Lenin

  Independent, Curves, Circles

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• I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.

  Wilkie Collins

  Christian, Morning, Prayer

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1379, e-artnow sro

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• So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it safely to the walkway and gone our separate ways to classes. How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if i fell, at least i wouldn't do it alone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Morning, Moving, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.136, Penguin

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• If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Tree, Serial Killer, Would Be

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sleep, Eye, Dragons

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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