“There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.” PeopleKnowsYearsWholeClassMiddleRocksYears AgoRegardComedian Author:Bob Saget
“The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class and averages. In addition, it profiles the state of the art of software construction and enhancement. I wish I'd had this wonderful reference book years ago.” YearsArtBookStatesWishClassWonderfulWorstProjectsResourcesYears AgoIncludingAverageSoftwareConstructionNormProfileInvaluableEnhancement Author:Tom DeMarco
“We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.” KnowsMenYearsLittlesTodaySpeakClassFiveTomorrowYears AgoLaborAccountsTwentiesSlaveYesterdayPermanentFive YearsSouthernBetter OffTwenty FiveLaborers Book:Lincoln on Democracy Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.” YearsLongSchoolRomanceTurnsGirlGivenMemoriesDealsClassWeekInformationStrangeCoupleHigh SchoolYears AgoCrushCommitteesTeenageOur MemoriesReunionAurasTeenage YearsSouvenirsPoignancyHigh School ReunionSchool Reunion Book:Roger Ebert's Video Companion Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion
“This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. We played with their unique shapes and tinkered with their infinite possibilities. The challenge was hard, so the reward of “cracking” a word felt great. This became a lifelong project for me.” YearsArtHardSchoolFeltChallengesClassPossibilityStudentsShapesProjectsUniqueYears AgoLettersTwentiesInfiniteRewardsPracticalsDullLifelongAssignmentsArt SchoolInfinite PossibilitiesTypographyFunctionality Author:Ji Lee
“I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsMadeSaidCertainResponsibilityClassMiddleBrotherKingsMassYears AgoShouldersMade ItMiddle ClassBrothers And SistersLuther Author:Angela Davis
“Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.” PeopleWayYearsTodayAmericaTermPoorClassPovertyMiddleCollegeHigherStandardsYears AgoMedicalThirtyMiddle ClassPoor PeopleThirty YearsStandards Of LivingAmerica TodayHigher StandardsGoing To College Author:Michael Medved
“Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.” WantYearsWellsPersonsShowsCan DoSpaceAttentionClassStudyFiveStudentsYears AgoSacredCirclesPay AttentionFive YearsProfessorsClassroomWorkplaceDistractedLaptopsNanniesSacred Space Author:Judy Woodruff
“Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.” YearsWellsStatesTodaySchoolCitiesClassMillionsEconomyNew YorkCollegeHigherYears AgoUniversitySakeCaliforniaFiftyWorking ClassAffordableHigher EducationTuitionGreat Schools Author:Bernie Sanders
“We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public universities and colleges was virtually free. Today, the cost is unaffordable for many working class families. Higher education must be a right for all - not just wealthy families.” YearsTodayMovingClassCollegeHigherCostYears AgoUniversityFortyWealthyWorking ClassHigher EducationGreat AmericanMoving InTuitionWrong Direction Author:Bernie Sanders
“Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz it's a car chase movie. All our songs were based on movies, every single song. I love movies, and that was something that me and the singer in Two Lane Blacktop bonded over - we were design students together, we did a film-class together, so we became obsessed with movies. It's followed me around ever since then, it's a constant theme.” YearsTwoTogetherFilmSongClassCarDesignStudentsBandYears AgoConstantSingersObsessedThemeLanesCuzMovie Love Author:Ladyhawke
“Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.” YearsFirstsSometimesFoundClassMorningMeditationNew YorkCoupleBalanceYogaYears AgoThank GodStressfulHooked Author:Valentina Zelyaeva
“Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.” YearsEyeRememberPerfectClassStreetsMiddleWorstPolicyWallTaxesYears AgoCrisisFinancialEightStormMiddle ClassWealthyRecessions1930sFinancial CrisisGreat RecessionPerfect Storm Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think there are many people in the working class who say, you know what? Yes, maybe we are better off than we were eight years ago, but I am still working two or three jobs, my kid can't afford to go to college, I can't afford child care, my real wages have been going down for 40 years. The middle class is shrinking. Who's standing up for me?” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsChildrenHas BeensStillsI CanTwoRealCareKidsJobsThreeClassMiddleCollegeYears AgoStandingEightMiddle ClassWorking ClassWagesBetter OffShrinkingChild Care Author:Bernie Sanders
“And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago.” YearsValuesClassFiveFourMiddleHundredYears AgoMiddle Class Author:Malcolm X
“If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.” IfsKnowsYearsLittlesSaidStillsProblemLastsBitsBlackClassLittle BitYears AgoFolksDiscussionHigh Class Author:Barack Obama
“I left my theatre the Loose Moose almost twenty years ago, and I hardly ever go back. Sometimes I go back to do a Mask class. They're doing more of this than I was doing when I left. Often it's the same improvisers but they're older. And now, they don't care if the theatre's full or not.” IfsYearsSometimesCareLeftClassYears AgoTwentiesDon't CareTheatreMaskMoose Author:Keith Johnstone
“Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.” WayYearsKindBookShowsAnswersClassPiecesCollegeParticularFindingsLateYears AgoEastAdmireCoastTherapeuticEast Coast Author:Al Pacino
“I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.” ThinkingYearsI CanWould BeKidsTodaySchoolNamesCommonClassChangedCollegeDevelopmentSpeechNormalHigh SchoolYears AgoDiagnosisAspergersHigh School Class Author:Temple Grandin
“What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class. This was many years ago and should not reflect on the conditions at the Art Institute of Chicago to this day, but we didn't know anything and we started to learn about how to work with clay.” KnowsShouldYearsArtClassConditionsYears AgoVery GoodThis DayChicagoClayScholarshipInstituteCeramics Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” YearsMindMadeSaidSoulEarthBitsClassHonorElementsYears AgoPrisonCriminalsKinshipCommonalityLower ClassYour Honor Author:Eugene V. Debs
“Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.” YearsStillsTwoMightNationsMemoriesRaceClassHappenedThousandTenYears AgoTwentiesObligationNonsenseThousand YearsAbsurdityNo Memory Author:Wilhelm Reich
“Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.” KnowsTryingYearsSaidAbleMovingPoliticalGoalClassMiddleEasierTenCapableYears AgoStrongerTablesMoving ForwardReformMiddle ClassPolitical Reform Author:Abdallah II