Sloane Crosley Quotes

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

I think it speaks to people in 2015, right now. We address real situations. It's real life! Everything that happens in 'Dope' could happen today.

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

I don't live with the 'right' people. I don't want to. I don't want to live with the rich in Beverly Hills or walk the streets of Hollywood. I want to go to K-mart and get good deals.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.