Stibbons Quotes

#1. Make ourselves attractive to students?" said the Archchancellor. "Mr Stibbons, the whole idea of a university is that it should be hard to get into.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Oh, young Stibbons reckons he's caught Uncertainty,' said the Senior Wrangler, licking the paper. 'As soon as his body remembers what it's called it forgets where it's supposed to be.

Terry Pratchett

#5. I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!"
"What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons.
"A tautology," said the Dean, from above.

Terry Pratchett

#6. The future of our nation is dependent on the future of our families.

James Lankford

#7. There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

Barry Hannah

#8. Their kisses had gone on and on - cheeks, neck, mouth, and tongue. Seconds ... minutes ... hours. Then they'd start all over again. Adults were too fixed on the final goal to take that kind of time. Only teenagers afraid of the next step exchanged kisses that lasted forever.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#9. Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#10. The better she understood the depths of his feelings, the more confident she would be. He wanted her confident.

Gena Showalter

#11. Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Oliver Cromwell