Matilda Agatha Trunchbull Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I -- I feel caught between the present and the past. Waiting. Hoping. — Laura Frantz

And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary. — Neil Young

The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female. — Valerie Solanas

I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies. — Gretchen Rubin

To me, the highlight of the event is watching a reenactor in a long striped dress sitting alone on a blanket, winding yarn. Absorbed in the task of wrapping strands of wool around her hand, she never looks up. Watching her is so mesmerizing and oddly sacred that it never occurs to me to interrupt her and ask her name or how she got into the yarn-winding reenactment biz, maybe because she isn't recreating; she is creating. — Sarah Vowell

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one. — M.F. Moonzajer

I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you. — Carrie Underwood

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are. — Duane Michals

Her face, I'm afraid, was neither a thing of beauty nor a joy for ever. She — Roald Dahl

Within this process, every individual act of building is a process in which space gets differentiated. It is not a process of addition, in which preformed parts are combined to create a whole, but a process of unfolding, like the evolution of an embryo, in which the whole precedes the parts, and actually gives birth to them, by splitting. — Christopher W. Alexander

My teammates are the best. — David Ortiz

Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they live, and the support systems they can afford to pay for. — David Blunkett

No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer. — Jim Cymbala

No matter how convoluted my life got, one thing remained consistent- my hair looked like a baby opossum had taken refuge in it, invited some friends over, and thrown a party. — Jennifer L. Armentrout