Scrumdiddlyumptious Quotes & Sayings

The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration. — Ben Bernanke

You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life. — Carolyn See

Take a bite and I am positive you will be shouting out oh how scrumdiddlyumptious this wonderveg is! — Roald Dahl

social mobility isn't just about money and economics, it's about a lifestyle change. The wealthy and the powerful aren't just wealthy and powerful; they follow a different set of norms and mores. When you go from working-class to professional-class, almost everything about your old life becomes unfashionable at best or unhealthy at worst. — J.D. Vance

Wow. He's like sexy Willy Wonka. — Kenya Wright

The opposite of humility is arrogance
the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn. — John Templeton

How does a doctor tell you that it's over, that there are things they could do but probably shouldn't, and that if your aim is quality of life and not quantity of life, there simply are no good next treatments? — Will Schwalbe

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Visualize your solutions. Picture an answer to the problem. Then make the picture real. — Wally Lamb

I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how life of the reef was layered and intertwined. I now had many individual pieces at hand: named images, nouns. How were they related? What were the verbs? Which syntaxes were indigenous to the place? I asked a dozen knowledgeable people. No one was inclined to elaborate- or they didn't know. "Did you see the octopus?" Someone shouted after the dive. Yes, I thought, but who among us knows what it was doing? What else was THERE, just then? WHY? — Barry Lopez

I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult — Dr. Seuss

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'
Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.
'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. — Roald Dahl

As her mother always said, even a blind squirrel gets a nut every now and then. — Isabel Jordan

Never put bananas in the refrigerator. — Roz Chast