Quotes About Social Climbers

#1. Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived. Swing is a state of arrival.

Craig Lambert

#2. They're so rich and revered that they have neither electricity nor running water. Only social climbers have a sauna and a Jacuzzi.

Jo Nesbo

#3. There are three things in life I really don't like: Rice pudding. Social climbers - you know, hang-ons! And the photo shoot!

Ivana Trump

#4. I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.

Rick Yancey

#5. If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

Christine Baranski

#6. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Herman Melville

#7. the city," he said diplomatically.

Victoria Thompson

#8. I live my life balancing on a set of scales, the slightest weight tipping me into darkness. The problem is each time that happens, they never quite rebalance.

Nicola Haken

#9. The chance was in front of you, why didn't you took it?

Anonymous

#10. A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.

Erich Bergen

#11. I realized that today I truly understood my purpose as Ellie: not just to Find people but to save them.

W. Bruce Cameron

#12. If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

Will Rogers

#13. Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

Michael Morpurgo

#14. These shoes were made for dancing, not propping up a bar stool."

"Those shoes were made for something," Alex said. "And it sure as hell isn't dancing.

Christina Phillips

#15. Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

Lorne Michaels

#16. People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

Suge Knight

#17. I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

Anne Tyler

#18. Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

KRS-One