Waffled Falafel Quotes & Sayings

Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile. — Derek Bok

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach. — Drew Barrymore

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh. — Lisa Kudrow

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks. — Ben Elliot

Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity. — William Dunbar

Vimes stuck his helmet under his arm, smoothed back his hair, and knocked. He'd considered asking Sargent Colon to accompany him, but had brushed the idea aside quickly. He couldn't have tolerated the sniggering. Anyway, what was there to be afraid of? He'd stared into the jaws of death three times; four, if you included telling Vetinari to shut up. — Terry Pratchett

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be. — Delphine De Vigan

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day. — Michael Gambon

A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future. — Andy Stanley

Give me back my manly vigour, my black hair and ureceded brow
give me back the sweetness in my voice, my musical laugh,
the grief i knew in my cups when the delicious Cinara left me. — Horace

The market alone can't solve our health-care woes. — Barack Obama

The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise. — Frances Beinecke

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists. — William Gibson

I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals — Robert Downey Jr.