One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.
Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.
I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.
In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.
I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.
I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
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.
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.
A history of the working class in the United States should, first of all, give a sense of what is meant by "the working class in the United States." It means most of us who live in the United States of America-which, unfortunately, has not been the f...
If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.
He nibbled on my lower lip again and pulled away, his breathing loud and labored. I opened my eyes and met two blue orbs so dark with desire that it almost made me lose all train of thought and strip naked. His lips were red and a little swollen from...
Elizabeth: Lower the anchor on the right side. Anamaria: [looks stunned] Elizabeth: On the starboard side! Will Turner: It has the element of surprise. Anamaria: You're daft lady. You both are! Mr. Gibbs: Daft like Jack. [turns to the crew] Mr. Gibbs...
Rooster Cogburn: When's the last time you saw Ned Pepper? Emmett Quincy: I don't remember any Ned Pepper. Rooster Cogburn: Short feisty fella, nervous and quick, got a messed-up lower lip. Emmett Quincy: That don't bring nobody to mind. A funny lip? ...
Can we be sure that they are incapable of the feelings or sentiments that are believed to place them on a lower scale than humans? Do we deny sensitivity to all of the so-called lower orders to blunt, protect, and, ultimately, deny our own? We will s...
