Extra Credit Quotes

#1. My fifth grade teacher Mr. Straussberger noticed I was having trouble with some of my book reports, but he knew I loved to draw. He gave me extra credit if I did a drawing from the book that I was reading.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#2. If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

Cory Doctorow

#3. To sum it up, Fate was like the Universe's experiment in extra credit. If the rest of us were a scoop of vanilla ice cream, he was a sundae, with extra fudge and a cherry.

Donna Augustine

#4. research shows that givers get extra credit when they offer ideas that challenge the status quo.

Adam M. Grant

#5. I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

Patricia Marx

#6. I, Judy Moody, will get zero-wrong-plus-extra-credit on the spelling test! 110%! Pass it on.

Anonymous

#7. Our teacher's [Ms. Whitlock] talking. Rambling how she'll give a hundred extra credit points to anyone who can solve the puzzle by the end of class. She's saying other things, too.

Katie McGarry

#8. Use only things you find around the bathroom to create something. Extra credit: make it in the bathroom!

Noah Scalin

#9. Well I give you an A," Carol said. "A+++ . . . and some extra credit . . . and some cookies. But I guess here they'd have to be virtual cookies and they wouldn't be nearly as cool. Except - if they were virtual, you could taste them, but not actually gain the calories. Oh, that would be genius.

Chad Morris

#10. It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.

Sartika Kurniali

#11. ...'Loving children is what teachers do for extra credit. It's not the main assignment.'
'Seems to me that the extra credit is more important than the main assignment,' observed Cordelia.

Esme Raji Codell

#12. One of the seeds has split its shell and reaches a white hand upward. An apple tree growing from an apple seed growing in an apple. I show the little plantseed to Ms. Keen. She gives me extra credit. David rolls his eyes. Biology is so cool.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#13. I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#14. You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

Dale Archer

#15. You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

Danny Elfman

#16. There are many random, unprotected sites online that appear safe to use and are ready to accept credit card information. You wouldn't give a stranger off the street your credit card information, so be extra cautious about who you are sharing it with online.

Alexa Von Tobel

#17. Eileen says what they should really do, if they want to be fair about it, is offer a Bible study class for credit, and let us take that instead of sitting an extra hour in study hall, twiddling our so-called opposable thumbs.

Laura Moriarty

#18. And then- moving his long, clean fingers around my waist and pulling me closer to his pine, his clove, his grass, his snow, his light- he kisses me.

Kate Ellison

#19. Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

Knut Hamsun

#20. There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader.

David Bezmozgis

#21. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

Iyanla Vanzant

#22. Do you remember the time darlin' when everything made more sense in the world? Oh I remember, I remember ... when life made more sense ... Take me back, take me back, take me way back ... to when life made more sense.

Van Morrison

#23. Life is a fairy tale that was written by hopes, dreams, and desires.

Debasish Mridha

#24. I love hearing people laugh.

James Gandolfini

#25. Why isn't anybody here?" Minho asked. He turned in a circle, searching the place. "If they're holding people in there, why no guards?

James Dashner

#26. Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.

Pam Ferris

#27. You must not fear that clutching at your dreams will shatter them so they run through your fingers like sand. That way lies a life spent in yearning. But yearning is only a season of dreaming, for dreams, if nurtured, become strong.

Alexia Casale

#28. What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

Kentetsu Takamori

#29. Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Douglas William Jerrold

#30. I almost never shoot people.

Janet Evanovich