Cunard White Star

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or star:

    “There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)