"The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition."

-- Gerald Early

#Ambition Quotes #Class Quotes #America Quotes

“Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val”
“If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.”

Source : Song: Walk With The Wise, Album: The Great Adventure
“Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.”
“Fear will keep you from accomplishing your dreams.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.”
“When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.”
“Talent is only a starting point.”
“I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.”

Source : Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

You may also like:

Bill Cosby
Comedian
Clark Terry
Trumpeter
Countee Cullen
Poet
Curt Flood
Baseball player
Dave Liebman
George Wein
Promoter
Roger Angell
Essayist
Stanley Crouch
Poet
Gary Giddins
Critic