Notice Of Assessment Quotes & Sayings

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise. — Jack London

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format. — John Darnielle

Part of the appeal of hamburgers and nuggets is that their boneless abstractions allow us to forget we're eating animals. — Michael Pollan

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me. — Andrew Murray

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everybody is who he was in high school. — Calvin Trillin

She's just as lovely and just as important as you are...just in a different way. — Jennifer K. Clark

By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago. — Vin Suprynowicz

Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space. — Slavoj Zizek

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying. — Margaret Chase Smith

This couldn't be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window, ruffled the feathers of a fat sea gull promenading on the pink rocks below. The breeze was full of evergreen spice. — Dorothy Maywood Bird

When your heart's been cut out, how's it going to feel knowing that you're the one who wielded the knife? — Peter David