Requiem: Memento Mori - Job Class / Skill

Famous quotes containing the words job, class and/or skill:

“Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job 38:11.

God speaking to Job of his laying of his “foundations of the earth.”

“The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)

“He utters substantial English thoughts in plainest English dialects.... Indeed, for fluency and skill in the use of the English tongue, he is a master unrivaled. His felicity and power of expression surpass even his special merits as historian and critic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)