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“Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars”
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“There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.”
Source : "The Open 2011: Bubba Watson regrets burbling about Parisian landmarks" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2011. 
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“I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.”
Source : Source: www.economist.com
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“The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.”
Source : "Vanessa Williams reflects on motherhood, struggle and stardom". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2012.
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“Whenever I teach writing I tell them to never revise as you go. Finish the first draft. This is my writing advice. I can't do that myself. I'm lying to everybody. I write a paragraph, and then I rewrite that paragraph. I want to feel like I'm standing on firm ground before I move on to the next paragraph. Mentally, I have to do that.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.”
Source : Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.17, Theatre Communications Group
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“Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character.”
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“There’s nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can’t learn in just one month on a local paper.”
