Every semester this gnaws at me: a student can put zero effort into a class, can lose points left and right on silly stupid mistakes, and even not show up half the time, and then can turn around and say I’m a bad teacher for it. I can stand in front of the room, begging and pleading a stone wall for questions, subjects to review, places the students are shaky and want a little shoring up and get nothing, only to have reviews complain that I go too fast. read more 
From: John Armstrong
Source: Student Evaluations
"Treat exceptionally good students badly, because they are likely to become your competitors in the future. But treat exceptionally bad students really well, as one of them is likely to become your funding agency program manager."
-- Senior Faculty member - joking, of course. read more
Source: http://incoherently-scattered.blogspot.com/2008/09/quote-of-week.html
मैं छुपाना जानता तो जग मुझे साधू समझता,
शत्रु मेरा बन गया है छल-रहित व्यवहार मेरा । read more
From: हरिवंश राय बच्चन
Language: Hindi
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. read more
From: J.K. Rowling
Source: Fringe benefits of failure
The time between bed and sleep was the worst of the day.
The past came back with a vengeance--the mistakes,
the misery, the could-haves and should-haves. Try as
he might, Hatlee could not simply close his eyes and go
to sleep. read more
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. read more
From: Quoted in John Grisham's The Brethren
I don’t really have anything against stories, but I just want to feel something happening. I read something that Emily Dickinson said that I’m going to paraphrase: you know something’s poetry if a shiver goes up your spine. read more
From: Charlie Kaufman
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_kaufman
