Formative And Summative Quotes

#1. Goal: Clean air, clean clear-running rivers, the presence of Pelican and Osprey and Gray Whale in our lives; salmon and trout in our streams; unmuddied language and good dreams.

Gary Snyder

#2. Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#3. So now, out of desperation, I'm back to prayer. I'm back to prayer, sheepishly, because I couldn't make my life work without it. I pray out of sheer lack of options.

Shauna Niequist

#4. The Baudelaires looked up and saw their guardian standing in the doorway of Violet's

Lemony Snicket

#5. He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain.

Gillian Flynn

#6. There was a blinding flash of magnesium and a smell of singed hair and dust. A green light flared in the boar's glass eye.

Linda Lappin

#7. See," she breathes. "It's nice. I trust you. But I like soft kisses. So in between the rough stuff you like, be careful with me. Give me something soft, because I really need it.

J.A. Huss

#8. When the cook tastes the soup, that's formative: when the guests taste the soup, that's summative.

Clare Landrigan

#9. Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

Nathan Fielder

#10. I'm not ashamed to say that I really loved some of the hair metal bands of the '80s.

Chris McCaughan