Matilda Mr Wormwood Quotes

#1. I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.

Katherine Heigl

#2. Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.

Bryant McGill

#3. The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96.

Lyn Nofziger

#4. Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

John Fowles

#5. Matilda said nothing. She simply sat there admiring the wonderful effect of her own handiwork. Mr Wormwood's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver, the colour this time of a tightrope-walker's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season.

Roald Dahl

#6. It wasn't his fault he'd been reared in a nice, safe, civilized society that protected him from the harsh reality of an older and grimmer set of imperatives.

David Weber

#7. Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

Zach Wamp

#8. To the victor belong the responsibilities.

Al Bernstein

#9. ...but instead of the can-do spirit we now have the can-do-with-some-government-funding spirit. And it's hard to get an inspirational heart-warmer out of that.

Mark Steyn

#10. My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

Carmen Electra

#11. John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.

Eric Close

#12. Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.

Lindsey Buckingham

#13. Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. He said: "I'm going to send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means you'll be out again in twenty years. You're an angel. I'll wait for you." He cleared his throat. "If they hang you I'll always remember you.

Dashiell Hammett