Elelive Quotes & Sayings

There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one is a slot to store money in, should his bank be unable to hold all of it. — W.C. Fields

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool. — Billy Preston

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world. — Lakhdar Brahimi

Assessment can be either formal and/or informal measures that gather information. In education, meaningful assessment is data that guides and informs the teacher and/or stakeholders of students' abilities, strategies, performance, content knowledge, feelings and/or attitudes. Information obtained is used to make educational judgements or evaluative statements. Most useful assessment is data which is used to adjust curriculum in order to benefit the students. Assessment should be used to inform instruction. Diagnosis and assessment should document literacy in real-world contexts using data as performance indicators of students' growth and development. — Dan Greathouse & Kathleen Donalson

[ ... ] passion is by no means the fuller life which it seems to be in the dreams of adolescence, but is on the contrary a kind of naked and denuding intensity, verily, a bitter destitution, the impoverishment of a mind being emptied of all diversity, an obsession of the imagination by a single image. — Denis De Rougemont

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained not just in society but in literature.The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know if it can clean up the mess in our minds. — Nora Ephron

Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere. — Max Lucado

See, I agree with what Cassidy says - once you have sex you'll always be sewn together with an astral thread. — Tim Tharp

We laugh, that we may not cry. — Roger Ebert

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. — Anna Quindlen

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots. — Vijay Singh

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor