Best Trunchbull Quotes

You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue! ~ Roald Dahl

Miss Honey gives us a little song about each word and we all sing it together and we learn to spell it in no time. Would you like to hear the song about "difficulty"?'

'I should be fascinated.' the Trunchbull said in a voice dripping with sarcasm.

'Here it is,' Nigel said.

'Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY.

That spells difficulty.'

'How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted the Trunchbull.

'Why are all these women married? And anyway you're not meant to teach poetry when you're teaching spelling. Cut it out in the future, Miss Honey. ~ Roald Dahl

Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush
climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away. ~ Roald Dahl

Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas. ~ Christopher Hitchens

We're providing planning to a huge audience who's never had access to financial planners before. This was always my plan for LearnVest. It was in my very first pitch deck. ~ Alexa Von Tobel

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life. ~ Vincent Nichols

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you. ~ Federico Mayor Zaragoza

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else. ~ Eoin Colfer

Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without having actual surgery. It's quite common in Thailand and Korea and Japan. ~ Jess Row

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all. ~ Henry Seidel Canby

Normally I laugh at such things, because there is nothing like a fart to lighten up a tense situation. ~ Kevin Hearne

Great idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police. ~ Ava Gardner

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it. ~ Herman Melville

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. ~ Mary Cheney

To promote "learning-by-being," we can encourage people to engage in unstructured and free-spirited approaches, promoting lateral thinking rather than vertical problem solving. ~ Matt Ratto

I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I cried, "Mistake
forget the the steak. I'll take the chicken then." I heard a cluck
'twas just my luck The busboy was a hen. I said, "Okay no, fowl today. I'll have the seafood dish." Then I saw through the kitchen door The cook
he was a fish. I screamed, "Is there anyone workin' here Who's an onion or a beet? No? Your're sure? Okay then friends, A salad's what I'll eat." They looked at me. "Oh,no," they said, "The owner is a cabbage head. ~ Shel Silverstein

Finally, don't forget that what you want to see happen is thoughtful tinkering. You want to see kids thinking about what they're tinkering with. I assume
that eventually, every kid will do this thinking, but it's good to make a conscious
effort to get them to make a conscious effort to learn as they tinker. "Conscientization" was Paulo Freire's word for a different but related process. Here,
what you want is for kids to become conscious of how they are learning, what there is to learn, and what they know already. Once they 've got this ability,there is no stopping their self-education. ~ Curt Gabrielson