"Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?"

-- Justina Chen

#Teacher Quotes #Class Quotes #Speak Quotes

“I wasnt born with a silver spoon in my mouth”
“I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.”
“I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.”
“A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.”
“Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.”
“The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.”
“Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.”

Source : Tama Janowitz (1991). “Slaves of New York”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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