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#11248
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⚐ ReportBramble: When [I saw that a student wrote a particular disappointing thing], I put down my coffee ... Bramble: ... picked up something stronger than my coffee, poured it into the coffee, and drank it until the pain went away. //later Bramble: If you write "this document is biased", I will put the coffee aside and go straight to the bottle. Bramble: The bottle of orange juice. I saved myself really well there.
#11230
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⚐ ReportBramble: Does anyone here have two passports? //several students raise hands Bramble: I'm guessing, for most of you, the other country is a European one. //several students (fewer) object Student: [My second passport is from] Australia Bramble: Well, that's Europe!
#11229
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⚐ ReportBramble: I hate repetition. Katz: You hate repetition? Bramble: After you work in the Department of Redundancy Department for a while, it starts to get on your nerves, after a while. Katz: Annoyingly gets on your nerves? Bramble: Well, I'm not naming any names ...
#11228
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⚐ ReportBramble: Sometimes I hope something will fall from the sky so that I don't have to go to work tomorrow. Bramble: And then, yesterday, my hopes came true. Bramble: Now I'm trying to figure out what exactly I was thinking and hoping then, so I can recreate that luck. Bramble: I tried it today, and it didn't work.
#11182
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⚐ ReportBramble: Glad to see you're all in fine fettle. Bramble: Not that I've ever heard of fettle that isn't fine. Bramble: I'm not sure I'd recognise a fettle if I saw one.
#10854
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⚐ Report//chaotic bramble anthology, september 20 "I thought I had psychologically locked you into those [formerly assigned] seats, but it seems that you are freethinkers who are not bound by my conventions." "Acronyms are not real English; acronyms are made up by people and groups to confuse outsiders." "If you are one of the 1%-ers, you're doing pretty okay, as you have been for all of history." "If you died, it's pretty much a negative. Let's go on the record as having said that." "[Having the surname Miller in Britain would] be like if, in America, you had the surname 'Landlord'. 'Hi, I'm John Landlord.' 'Oh, ew, no, don't want to associate with that guy.'" "If you want people to think that you've read some 15th-century Italian literature, go get a copy of the Decameron. People will think it's so refined, but really, it's a cracking-good story." "Who here has heard of William Shakespeare?" "Oh, that Da Vinci. He lived by a certain code. ... [class unamused] I guess that book was from a while ago." "The Hundred Years' War. I believe it was actually 116 years, but hey, who's counting?" "In America, you may be familiar with a certain hand gesture, in which one extends the back of their hand, and extends the middle digit, and leaves the other fingers curled back. It is sometimes accompanied by a particular two-word epithet." "Sometimes, in history, I have no idea whether a story is a true or false, but doggonit, I like that story, and I'm gonna tell it." "I know the best way to pick volunteers ... pick the first person who is smiling!"