Status Conscious Quotes

#1. Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.'

Michael Easton

#3. Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

Woody Allen

#4. You understand ... just what the Taoists mean when they say that soft is stronger than hard.

Alan Weisman

#5. I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

Richard P. Feynman

#6. Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

Ian Anderson

#7. Anger protects pride (maan). Deceit (kapat) protects greed.

Dada Bhagwan

#8. The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

Evan Esar

#9. For him, conscious intent was a form of prediction, and prediction is only possible when the status quo has reason to assume it will meet no significant opposition.

William S. Burroughs

#10. Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much.

Izabella Scorupco

#11. He announced to me that as soon as ever he grows up, he will get married, just because he wants to have little children, whom he likes. 'There is only one trouble,' he added, very seriously, 'I shall have to live all the time with my wife; there is no escape.

Aimee Dostoyevsky

#12. In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted

Robert Galbraith

#13. I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting ... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.

Jonathan Brown

#14. If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.

Marianne Williamson

#15. I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

Milton Avery

#16. Status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.

Mohsin Hamid