Tracy Beaker Book Quotes & Sayings

The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result. — Susan Mann

So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left. — Terry Gross

Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done. — Ahmed Zewail

I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody. — Tom T. Hall

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible. — Ambrose Bierce

Don't say 'No,' say 'Gilbert,' ladies and gentlemen. — Greg Proops

I've never been good at following directions. All you have to do is look at my Ikea bureau with the crooked drawers to figure that one out. — Donna Augustine

After being in a studio, working on games stuff, I'm like, 'Oh my God, I wish I could just sit in my room for a week and listen to music and draw by myself.' — Joe Madureira

If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies are in contact for any length of time, they will either trade or fight. The first is non-zero-sum social integration, and the second ultimately brings it. — Robert Wright

My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you. — Bill Cosby

I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is incredible, that is beyond the imagination, something which you cannot believe is a reality-and it is the most real. I could not make it myself, I could not create it myself, but I can participate in it. Trying to create it yourself is only a tragedy, participating in it is a big chance. — Wolfgang Laib

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. — Alton Brown

Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here? — Lorne Michaels

There is something beyond. Though perhaps my belief is merely my own desire wishing it to be so."
"You are not encouraging me. Aren't You omnipotent?"
"Hardly," Harmony said, smiling. "But I believe that parts of me could be. — Brandon Sanderson