Rate Your Prof Quotes & Sayings

Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao. — Jung Chang

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don't really "need" anything new, so we only create what we want. — Chuck Klosterman

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. — John Selden

Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come — Og Mandino

If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for weeks. — John C. Maxwell

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology. — Barack Obama

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want to see or let anyone else see, and this stuff usually turns out (paradoxically) to be precisely the stuff all writers and readers share and respond to, feel. Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or to present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable. This process is complicated and confusing and scary, and also hard work, but it turns out to be the best fun there is.
The fact that you can now sustain the fun of writing only by confronting the very same unfun parts of yourself you'd first used writing to avoid or disguise is another paradox, but this one isn't any kind of bind at all. What it is is a gift, a kind of miracle, and compared to it the reward of strangers' affection is as dust, lint. — David Foster Wallace

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master. — Joseph Addison