"While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and still pass as something hybrid-y enough for my poetry workshops, I was looking for models, for forebears."

-- John D'Agata

#Writing Quotes #School Quotes #Trying Quotes

“All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.”
“For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds.”
“Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.”
“It's always refreshing to step into another time.”
“If you donâ€™t use your voice, thereâ€™s someone waiting behind you who will.”
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”

Source : "Teacher and child". Book by Haim Ginott, 1972.
“After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.”
“Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.”

Source : Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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