First Class Sayings

#1. MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

Brit Hume

#2. First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#3. But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.

Lynn Messina

#4. The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Jackie Robinson

#5. United [Airlines] sucks, man. I've got like a million miles and they never bump me to first class because they think I'm just a kid and give the seat to some schmoozy guy in a business suit.

Shaun White

#6. The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

Zora Neale Hurston

#8. Minerva McGonagall was later awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, by the new Minister for Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and shortly afterwards appeared on a card in the Chocolate Frog Famous Witches and Wizards series, an accolade she admitted she had never imagined receiving.

J.K. Rowling

#9. I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.

Sybil Thorndike

#10. There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.

Otto E. Neugebauer

#11. Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#12. Dad always encouraged my singing, so when 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' was a hit in the States, I flew my parents to New York first-class to see me, put them up at the Waldorf Astoria, then they sailed home on the QE2.

Kiki Dee

#13. I don't how anybody taller than 6-4 can sit in those seats. And the airline executives don't give a damn 'cause they never walk back there in the first place. I don't fly first class because I have a lot of money. I do it because I need the room.

Charles Barkley

#14. I think he was worried about pushing things too far for the time being since I was obviously rocking a first-class ticket to certifiable insanity.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#15. Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

William Feather

#16. Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

Alan Kay

#17. I have so many miles and I've been flying for so long that every time I fly, it's first class. It's one of those things that, if I needed to jump on a plane, and fly to Spain tomorrow, I know I could get it done. Just like that.

Lupe Fiasco

#18. She made me feel like a first-class idiot, and consequently I became a first-class idiot around her.

Jojo Moyes

#19. My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#20. A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

Andy Hargreaves

#21. Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to.

Dov Davidoff

#22. I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Gene Simmons

#23. I have a very simple rule when it comes to management: hire the best people from your competitors, pay them more than they were earning, and give them bonuses and incentives based on their performance. That's how you build a first-class operation.

Donald J. Trump

#24. The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society.

Karl Marx

#25. I was reminded of the time I got a free upgrade to first class, where I sat right next to Sean Connery. Tongue-tied, I couldn't think of a thing to say besides, "You're Sean Connery," of which presumably he was aware.

Lionel Shriver

#26. Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

Rita Rudner

#27. If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

Muhammad Ali

#28. I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

Art Buchwald

#29. It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers only - and perhaps the indifferent ones - that photography can lie.

Henry Peach Robinson

#30. Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

Ian McEwan

#31. The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'

Dan Jenkins

#32. Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Wynton Marsalis

#33. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

Dwight Morrow

#34. There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.

David O. Selznick

#35. A second-class is a first-class mistake.

William Arthur Ward

#36. But when you take over a ship with a bomb threat, you really go first-class.

Dave Barry

#37. People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

Cleveland Amory

#38. I've only been here a couple minutes, but it was long enough to recognize first class eye-fuckery.

Tessa Bailey

#39. On a good day, I'm a first class prick, but even I know that being treated like you're disposable is something no one should ever be used to.

Melyssa Winchester

#40. Frank Martin is a rarity. Dexterous as a player, writer and singer, he is thoughtful and skilled in his approach and passionate in his delivery. He is a unique, first-class musical personality.

Tom Kimmel

#41. When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.

Marla Gibbs

#42. The guard looked from one to the other. His mind was soon made up. His training led him to despise foreigners, and to respect and admire well-dressed gentleman who travelled first class.

Agatha Christie

#43. I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people.

Lesley Kagen

#44. It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

Jared Kushner

#45. I don't waste time putting money down, I just go straight to who got it and buy it in cash. Pussy so good that you gotta come see me on tour and you gotta fly in first class.

Drake

#46. JavaScript derives its syntax from Java, its first-class functions from Scheme, and its prototype-based inheritance from Self. But

David Flanagan

#47. So when you do board, the first class people, they're sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They're looking up at you like, Hey, we're making money right now! Right now we're making money.

Brian Regan

#48. It was fifteen thousand for a first-class ticket, but I'm sufficiently capitalized to indulge such whims. And the drinks are free on the flight. If you're ambitious, you can almost break even.

John Green

#49. After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.

Frederick Sanger

#50. A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells.

Philip Kerr

#51. With an eBook, however, you are not a first-class commercial citizen. Instead, you have only purchased tenuous rights within someone else's company store. You cannot resell, nor can you do anything else to treat your purchase as an investment.

Jaron Lanier

#52. There are only two classes - first class and no class.

David O. Selznick

#53. Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

Andrew Sarris

#54. 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.

Aldous Huxley

#55. They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian.

Matthew Sweet

#56. He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.

Don DeLillo

#57. €7,500, first-class, everything - and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

Slavoj Zizek

#58. It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

J. Willard Marriott

#59. Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

Wynton Marsalis

#60. Go first class all the way and the universe will respond by giving you the best.

Deepak Chopra

#61. Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

Method Man

#62. When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.

Nicola Sturgeon

#63. If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

Bill Gates

#64. First-class relationships are possible only in an atmosphere of total trust.

Chris Prentiss

#65. In America, tribalism is alive and well. There are four kinds - class, ideology, region, and race. First, class. Pretty easy. Rich folk and poor folk. Second, ideology. Liberals and conservatives. They don't merely disagree on political issues, each side believes the other is evil.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#66. Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

Adora Svitak

#67. One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.

Bronislaw Huberman

#68. Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.

William J.H. Boetcker

#69. It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#70. It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#71. We all know that broad's about six stamps short of first class these days.

Danielle Paige

#72. Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it's just more special to use it for good.

J. R. Martinez

#73. As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

Mary Quant

#74. The first class antagonism appearing in history coincides with the development of the antagonism of man and wife in monogamy, and the first class oppression with that of the female by the male sex.

Friedrich Engels

#75. First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

Siegbert Tarrasch

#76. An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#77. There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

Robert Benchley

#78. Happy, you really are a first-class gloomy bugger," JC said affectionately. "You could gloom for the Olympics, and still take a Bronze in existential paranoia."
Everyone has to be good at something," said Happy smiling in spite of himself.

Simon R. Green

#79. Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#80. In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.

Theodore Roosevelt

#81. Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

Walter Huston

#82. I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside,

Tommy Douglas

#83. I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'

Edgerrin James

#84. I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Richard Strauss

#85. Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

Stanley Baldwin

#86. It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

Gregory Bateson

#87. With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Shane Warne

#88. I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living.

Lucky Luciano

#89. I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.

Dave Foley

#90. To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

Philip Schaff

#91. Phil Ershler is a world class climber and guide. Sue Ershler is a first class businesswoman. But their story is not just about climbing and business. It is about two people in love who switch leads in life's hard climb. A great read - inside or outside a tent!

Jim Whittaker

#92. I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

Curtis Jackson

#93. If all the lifeboats were on the upper deck, then mostly first-class passengers survived?

Kate Alcott

#94. They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.

Chuck Feeney

#95. 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

Albert Allen Bartlett

#96. The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.

Jim Brown

#97. I like to travel business or first class. I wouldn't go out of my way to pay through the nose if the particular airline had a perfectly adequate economy class - but I do like to be comfortable when traveling.

Hilary Devey

#98. But that was a long time ago and since then a crab has been gnawing at my vitals. All this began in the Metro (first-class) with the phrase - 'l'homme que j'etais, je ne le suis plus.

Henry Miller

#99. One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

Charles William Eliot

#100. The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

Eric Fellner