“The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.” YearsHouseTermClassWeekMiddleCarConversationEatingClothesSizePossessionNeighborMaturityMiddle ClassShoppingVacationConsumptionConsumerismConsumingOverconsumptionSuccess Is MeasuredLove Wisdom Book:The Signature of Jesus Source: The Signature of Jesus
“I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.” IfsMenShouldMadeHandsClassEatingMouthsAlmighty Author:Abraham Lincoln
“If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.” IfsLooksHas BeensDifferentFoundClassPaperEatingBagsIgnoredCould Have BeenAdmirerHelenHordePaper BagsPeppermintHelen Of Troy Book:Collected Stories Source: Collected Stories
“Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.” FirstsMeanStoriesBodyRomanceSpiritLiteratureFictionClassCivilizationEatingRoundsLove StoryMagazinesFourthProteinFirst Class Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.” MenKindSoulBodyActionDesireCoursesEvilFoundCausesSinClassDiseaseEatingAnd LoveThirdsDrinkingVicesComplainingAfflictionIndulgenceBad Food Author:Maimonides
“A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.” PeopleAgeHouseCommonClassGroupsTelevisionWasteEatingPerformancesDistanceIncomeInwardUniformsMultitudesConformMoldFreezer Author:Lewis Mumford
“I try to stay sane and grounded by hunkering down, eating right, and exercising. I make a routine of spin class, yoga, and Pilates, places I push my body so hard I can lose my mind. Cutting out caffeine and sugar, being mindful, and getting enough rest are important.” TryingMindI CanImportantHardEnoughBodyLosesClassCuttingExerciseEatingYogaRoutineSugarSaneGroundedCaffeinePilatesEating RightHunkering Down Author:Jaime Murray
“There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.” IfsKidsCertainBlackWhiteAttitudeClassMiddleEatingPopulationKitchenMiddle ClassPercentages Author:Barack Obama
“One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.” KindDifferentSometimesBigsSchoolTogetherSocialClassStudyEffectsTaughtInvolvedEatingMajorsSittingOrganizationImpactMereBackgroundsMealsBarriersBig ThingsSchoolingSitting DownChattingDifferent BackgroundsSocial ImpactEating Together Author:Amartya Sen
“I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.” KnowsFirstsSaidIdeasHappensActingClassSawsCarBrotherEatingSittingMy FriendsCardsAgentsNo IdeaRanMy BrotherSunsetWhy NotLunchAlrightTheatricalActing ClassesBoulevardSunset BoulevardEating Lunch Author:George Stults
“He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world” WorldNextSportsSleepSecretClassFourBedEatingConstantGhostForestsHallsMailTowersForbiddenCastlesVisitingPostersArrivingOwlCabinsBanquetsSleeping InHogwartsPopular SportsHagridDormitoryQuidditch Author:J. K. Rowling