“The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.” FirstsNextClassGoneMastersOne DayDinnerServantManifestationServingNext DayDisappearanceClassless Society Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!” TryingHardSchoolGirlClassFrontsOne DayHigh SchoolMy FriendsLipsSeatsChairsBloodyClownShowing OffClumsyStitchesTrying So Hard Author:Prince Royce
“Tendulkar is a world class player and a great ambassador for the game. As a youngster I watched the games and that's where all my dreams started. You watch Tendulkar on TV and you think that I want to be like that one day” ThinkingWorldWantDreamGamesClassWatchesPlayerTvsOne DayCricketAmbassadorsYoungstersWorld ClassTendulkar Author:Graeme Smith
“I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.” FirstsMadeI CanTwoHardKidsAgeFoundCommonActingClassLaughingOne DayAdmireTwo ThingsImaginaryFractionsCarolsActing ClassesUclaImaginary FriendMake Someone Laugh Author:Christine Lakin
“My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.” FirstsDoeRealRunningBehindsClassPlansFootballOne DayDecidedRoundsVery GoodScaredPrincipalPlaying FootballSophomore Author:Jerry Rice
“However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.” MenEndsLightNightOrderClassDangerOne DayTragedyCalmPrisonerMistressDay And NightSubjectionUnbalanced Author:Marcel Proust
“One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.” TryingWellsScienceGamesRealizingClassTeacherLessonsOne DayPaperSittingMathematicsFinishedMathematicalDozenToesPapersAnalyzingTicsDoodlingTic Tacs Author:Martin Gardner
“Teaching is my most reliable form of human contact. I love the opportunity to speak Spanish (which I don't do at home), the give-and-take with students, the surprises. One day you think you have the goods for a sensational class and it bombs. The next day you have nothing and the class turns out splendidly.” ThinkingGivingHumansHomeFormTurnsNextOpportunitySpeakClassTeachingStudentsOne DaySurpriseContactBombsGoodsNext DayGive And TakeSensational Author:Gustavo Perez Firmat
“My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be.” IfsYearsI CanGoalCompanyClassOne DaySentences Author:Pete Sampras
“When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” PeopleSeemsUsedNextClassTeachingPolicyStudentsOne DayEqualStandardsTreatsInstitutionsDiscriminationOrganizedTreatmentBentBoycottSemesterEqual TreatmentPreferential Treatment Author:Thomas Sowell
“I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me, "Hey, there's this guy Basho you would find interesting," and so I found Basho. A fiction teacher told me, "You ought to read Clarice Lispector if you're interested in that sort of in-between stuff," and then Lispector appeared. It's not magic. You just keep your eyes open.” PeopleIfsSaidEyeGuyAsksFoundStuffMy OwnInterestingFictionClassTeacherMagicOughtOne DayHeyGenerousProfessorsThis Guy Author:John D'Agata
“I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing the Viet Nam war as immoral but one day it dawned on me that I didn't know what that meant. I signed up for an ethics class at San Francisco State to find out the answer.” KnowsWarStatesAnswersClassMovementCollegeOne DayEthicsAnti WarSociologyImmoralSan FranciscoAnti War Movement Author:Dale Jamieson
“I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day sitting in class and it just came to me how the neck worked. I was enlightened to the scales, and the runs. I just saw it and thought; now I understand it!” RunningRememberClassSawsOne DaySittingGuitarScalesObsessedNecksEnlightenedTexasRefined Author:Steve Young