Please feel free to contact me at anytime. My email address is: mbasnett@crosscreekcharterschool.com
A Special Note
We are in need of, and truly want, new members. We would love to have all of the families from the upcoming 2011-2012 Seventh Grade Class join our site now. Likewise, we would sincerely like for the graduating Eighth Grade Class to join so we can keep in touch throughout the school year to come. For that matter, we would love to have any Crosscreek Charter School family as members! Current members, please spread the word and help us to make this site into something grand. We're off to a great start. Let us stay the course and endeavor to perservere!
A little bit about Mr. Matt
I was born in a small town located in central West Virginia. I spent the first 18 years of my life on my family's small farm located approximately five miles from that same small town (which is called Grantsville). After graduating from Calhoun County High School in 1992, I went on to attend Glenville State College and receive a Bachelors of Arts in Education. My lovely wife, Rhyan Nicole, and I moved to North Carolina in 1999...
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If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. ~Murphy's Law
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck
I tell you this, and I tell you plain:
What you have done, you will do again;
You will bite your tongue, careful or not,
Upon the already-bitten spot.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. ~Author Unknown
A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. ~Franklin P. Jones
It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ~Author Unknown
What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
An unwatched pot boils immediately. ~H.F. Ellis
If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark. ~Leopold Fechtner
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ~Will Rogers
When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time. ~Author Unknown
How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire? ~Christy Whitehead
Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics. ~Author Unknown
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. ~Author Unknown
Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs? ~Christopher Morley, Contribution to a Contribution
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. ~Grace Hopper
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. ~Author Unknown
It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. ~Author Unknown
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. ~Author Unknown
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. ~Edgar Allan Poe
People who snore always fall asleep first. ~Author Unknown
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. ~Author Unknown
The trouble with, "A place for everything and everything in its place" is that there's always more everything than places. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Amount of time it takes for a dog to "do its business" is directly proportional to outside temperature + suitability of owner's outerwear. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter. ~Bat Masterson
No one is listening until you fart. ~Author Unknown
Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy. ~Russian Proverb
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator
I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. ~Sam Ewing
I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror. ~Elaine Dundy
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ~Dave Barry
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story - especially when you're not sure which half they know. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies... means roughly that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. If your ox kicks a hole in your neighbor's Maserati, however, indemnity is instantaneous. ~Alan Coren, The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions, 1977
"The distance is nothing. It's only the first step that's important."Maria Anne De Vichy-Chamrond
"Trying is the touchstone to accomplishment." - Paul Von Ringelheim
"The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in the continents or the seas; they are in the minds and hearts of men." - Allen E. Claxton
"The oldest, shortest words -- "yes" and "no" -- are those which require the most thought." - Pythagoras
"If you would create something, you must be something." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it." - Voltaire
"Nothing happens,and nothing happens,and everything happens"-Fay Weldon
"You cannot put a great hope into a small soul"-Jenkin Lyod Jones
"In the case of expectation, the outcome serves as a reality check;in the case of values it does not"-George Soros
"Toughness and perserverance require a willingness to work hard even when thing are difficult. They also help encourage other to work just as hard as you do"-Randy Dunton
"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao Tzu
"Different sores have different slaves." -English Proverb
"A dream can be the highest point of a life." -Ben Okri
"Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when veiwed in it's relation to the world to come." -Albert Barnes
"There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them." - Clare Booth Luce
"The mind forgets, but the heart always remembers." - Author Unknown
"Man is what his dreams are." - Benjamin Mays
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." - G.K. Chesterton
"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it will soon be so." - Edgar Allan Poe
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
"Different sores have different salves." - English Proverb
"You are confined by your own system of oppression." - Toni Morrison
"Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness." - Author Unknown
"Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life." - Anais Nin
"Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result." - Robert Green Ingersoll
"Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order." - Anne Wilson Schaef
"Productive thinking requires that we not rush to answers but to hang back, to keep questioning even when the answers seem obvious." - Tim Hurson
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown." - Thomas Mann
"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." - Gelett Burgess
"Don't cry because it's over, SMILE because it happened!" -Dr. Seuss
"You rock just the way you are!" ~Taylor Swift
"All you have to do to be my friend is like me." ~Taylor Swift
"On a scale of 'Duh-Huh' to 'genious', where do you think that one registers?" ~Mr.Matt (submitted by L.C.)
"What will survive of us is love." -Phillip Larkin
"All clouds do not rain." -Dutch Proverb
"There is one fundamental difference between love and hate. Love is always a refuge. Hate is never a refuge. Only a mentally sick person can find refuge in his hates. But love is the enduring sanctuary of life. Life may rob you of things. It often does. But it can never bereave us of love itself." ~Abba Hillel Silver
"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." -W.J. Cameron
"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." -Gerald Good
"Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men: But be careful not to take the day and leave out the gratitude." -E.P. Powell
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John Fitzgerald Kennedy (AKA John F. Kennedy)
"In times of war, you often hear leaders say 'God is on our side', but that isn't true. God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans." -Greg Mortenson
"Reach high, for the stars are hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." -Pamela Vaull Starr
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau
"Imagination is more important than knowlege." -Albert Einstein
"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."
-Emo Philips
"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
-Michelangelo
"All bad art is the result of good intentions."
-Oscar Wilde
"Art is like soup. There will be some vegetables you don't like but as long as you get some soup down, it doesn't matter."
-George Wyllie
"Some people say humans are the most dangerous creatures on earth. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat." -Lillian Johnson
"You can call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'. -Lewis Grizzard
"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God." -Author Unknown
"If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro." -Bruce Fogle
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." -Robert A. Heinlein
"I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it." -Steve Irwin
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Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. ~Thomas W. Higginson
Let your humour always be good-humour, in the double sense of the phrase: if it comes from a bad humour, it is almost sure to be bad humour. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events. ~E.T. "Cy" Eberhart
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ~Max Eastman
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road. ~Henry Ward Beecher
There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ~Victor Borge, London Times, 3 January 1984
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. ~Abe Burrows
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~Roman Gary
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ~Leo Rosten
Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. ~Taki
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ~Christopher Morley
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. ~Irvin S. Cobb
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ~Francis Bacon
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. ~Tom Walsh
Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations. ~Ron Dentinger
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. ~Author Unknown
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. ~Mark Twain
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. ~James Thurber
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~William James
After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor. ~Bill Kelly, "Mordillo"
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ~Mahatma Gandhi
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ~Peter De Vries
Humor is just another defense against the universe. ~Mel Brooks
Humor is reason gone mad. ~Groucho Marx
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~Peter Ustinov
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. ~Sid Caesar
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ~Ellie Katz
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. ~George Saintsbury
Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously. ~Arland Ussher
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. ~Mary Hirsch
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes. ~William Davis
Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ~Frank A. Clark
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Trustworthy: (adjective) worthy of confidence : DEPENDABLE
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