Mustrum Quotes

#1. Like most people with no grasp whatsoever of real economics, Mustrum Ridcully equated "proper financial control" with the counting of paper clips. Even senior wizards had to produce a pencil stub to him before they were allowed a new one out of the locked cupboard below his desk.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

Roseanne Barr

#3. What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. It is not so much that I began to run, but that I continued.

Hal Higdon

#6. When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same.

Plato

#7. I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

John W. Thompson

#8. I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.

Michael Gove