Class Quote by Thom Gunn

“Because if you are the mess, you can clean it. Improvement doesn't depend on others.”

— Arbinger Institute

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you…

— Julia Alvarez

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You…

— James Lipton

I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find…

— T.C. Boyle

I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'

— Claire Messud

Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out…

— Sandra Cisneros

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country…

— James Madison

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and…

— Ellen Tauscher

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will…

— Nancy Pelosi

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

Emotions are classes in the Earth school. Some classes are about fear, and some are about love. The Universe is your tutor, and your…

— Gary Zukav