A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

- Blanka Vlasic

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

- Joyce Maynard

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

- John Berger

Language does not make one an elite.

- Irrfan Khan

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

- Hugo Chavez

I'm an elite, recreational juggler.

- Gracie Gold

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

- Ed Gillespie

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

- David Frum

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

- Desmond Tutu

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

- Dan Quayle

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

- Ben Hecht

I serve and answer to the Texans I represent - not the Hollywood elite.

- Blake Farenthold

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

- Bobby Orr

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

- Alfre Woodard

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

- Andre Rieu

Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.

- Amish Tripathi

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

- Adolf Galland

When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

- Aly Raisman

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.

- Alice Waters