Trunchbull Matilda Quotes

#1. I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together so we can tell all of the families, all of the wives and children, just how good we were because they never got to see us play.

Larry Conley

#2. Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel.

Ian McEwan

#3. Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Ellen Terry

#4. Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

Eustache Deschamps

#5. I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty.

Rupert Holmes

#6. The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

Katherine Dunn

#7. When you're a stupid girl in love, it's almost impossible to see the red flags. It's so easy to pretend they're not there, to pretend everything is perfect.

Heather Demetrios

#8. You know, Barack Obama the last ten days was traveling overseas campaigning in Europe and everywhere. It was so successful, campaigning abroad, that he is actually thinking about campaigning here in the United States.

David Letterman

#9. I'd rather have my last memory be of his death than suffer knowing that his last memory was of mine.

Kiera Cass

#10. A goal is a dream with a finish line.

Duke Ellington

#11. What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Bob Iger

#12. By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

Henry Adams