The Bursar Quotes

#1. Willow bark," said the Bursar. "That's a good idea," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. "It's an analgesic." "Really? Well, possibly, though it's probably better to give it to him by mouth,

Terry Pratchett

#2. It's probably a miracle of existence." "Like pickles," said the Bursar, happily. Even the Fresh Starters went blank.

Terry Pratchett

#3. I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures," said the Senior Wrangler sourly.
"That is so,' said Ponder, "but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance.

Terry Pratchett

#4. A dichotomy,' said the Bursar helpfully. 'Oh, I don't think surgery is involved.

Terry Pratchett

#5. This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

Paul Weyrich

#7. The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.

Tim Jackson

#8. When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

John O'Donohue

#9. That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!

Rick Yune

#10. One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

David Mitchell

#11. Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

Mary Schmich

#12. Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them.

Roger Ebert

#13. Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.

Jonathan Pryce

#14. I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.

Jack Bruce

#15. Bursar?"
"Yes, Archchancellor?"
"You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you?"
"Me? No, Archchancellor."
"Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Most come up with New Year Resolutions...
Others are busy making Excuses...
A few are following through with Execution...
Design your New Year Intentionally.

Farshad Asl

#17. Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Margaret Mead

#18. I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, they're people that you love to watch just be themselves. I like to be a little bit more in control. I like to make something.

Kristen Stewart

#19. Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'

Robert Giroux

#20. And you, you make me feel like I could do the stupidest thing in the world, and you'd still like me how I am.

Kiera Cass

#21. I tried to quash my anger and fear. If I was being set up to fail, then I would fail spectacularly.

Fran Wilde