Quotes About Status

Luxury has been a bit of a rollercoaster for me. I would define it as something that isn't needed but improves your life.

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.

What good was being the king of the rackets in Newark, N.J., if you couldn't have DiMaggio at your dinner table?

Maybe I'll buy myself a nice Gucci bag.

Bullies now aren't just jocks. They're rich kids in the nice cars with the fancy clothes.

You want to have a good job so you can make good money. You want to make good money so you can buy nice things. You want to have nice things so you can impress a nice woman.

When I was growing up, we were in a high income bracket, one of the highest. I was one of the first in high school to get a car. And I didn't have to wait for it to be a graduation present, either. We've probably got one of the nicest houses in Sacramento.

I'm not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.

I have no interest in the trappings of power.

I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.

Thirty years on, things have changes to the extent that Wayne Rooney could comfortably afford to employ the best-paid banker in Britain full-time, if he could see any purpose or momentary amusement in doing so.

I love China! I love my country even though it is not always good ro right,' my daughter proclaimed in a firm voice. Her words brought tears to my eyes. I also had a deep and abiding love for the land of my ancestors even though, because of my class status, I had become an outcast.

Kill the rich, fuck the middle class, marry the poor! Chomsky out!

Shelby trailed off when she spotted the goldfish swimming in circles inside the Waterford. Well, he's come up in the world, she said with a jerky laugh. I don't think he appreciates it.

Just because a man had a trace of blue blood in his veins didn't mean he was quality. It didn't make him a gentleman, either. All it made him was an aristocrat.

there's no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class, it just means you're rich and insecure or poor and misinformed.

As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn't own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you don't own a TV simply means you're poor (or maybe depressed). In one ten-year span, high-end television usurped the cultural positions of film, rock, and literary fiction.

I have more CDs than 99 percent of America, but fewer CDs than 40 percent of my friends; if an acquaintance has more CDs than me, I feel intimidated and emasculated. I think about my CDs a lot. I find it oddly reassuring to look at them when I'm intoxicated.

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things, the doorman said.

Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are

Welcome to America, our never-ending, great popularity contest.

The reason boys desire so desperately to kiss girls is because, with each kiss, the activity makes the boy's wanger grow larger. The more girls a boy can kiss, the larger a wanger he'll eventually possess, and the boys boasting the largest are awarded the best-paying, highest-status jobs. Really, it's all very simple.

People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden.