#lass

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#child #does #doing #else #every

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#books #classes #coaches #day #go

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bad #because #beverly #beverly hills #come

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

#along #class #drudge #ever #genius

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity. ↗

— Julian Castro

#back #brains #classmates #difference #dreams

I come from a very working-class background. ↗

— Clive Owen

#class background #come #i #very #working-class

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined? ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#education #information-literacy #information-management #learning #literacy

In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role. ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#because #classmates #commute #dropping #fact

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well. ↗

— Iris Chang

#class #class distinctions #country #course #distinctions

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#drink #entire #faith #finish #glass