He was aware that he had their full attention, something that wizards did not often give. Usually they defined 'listening' as a period in which you worked out what you were going to say next. It was disconcerting. (LC)
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'I think that before we made humanity, we broke the mould.' (LC)
Ridcully told jokes like a bullfrog did accountancy. They never added up. (LC)
The architecture was what is known professionally as 'vernacular', a word used in another field to mean 'swearing' and this was quite appropriate. (LC)
A wizard without a hat was just a sad man with a suspicious taste in clothes. (LC)
Sometimes you had to turn facts in several directions until you found the right way to fit them in Ridcully's head. (LC)
Ridcully felt there was indeed room at the top, and he was occupying all of it. (LC)
Wasn't it a basic principle never to let your employer know what it is you actually do all day? (LC)
Thinking
This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you. (N) It's hard to talk to someone who understands ... (N)
'Make them think. Tell them what's got to be done, and let them work out how.' (N)
That was their law. The strongest man led. That made sense. At least, it made sense to strong men. (N)
'There are different ways to eat people ...' (N)
'... to save time, shall we pretend we've had the argument and I won?' (N)
'... I don't believe that people who have really gone mad think they have gone mad, so wondering if you have gone mad means that you haven't.' (N)
'... it takes a lifetime to learn how to die.' (N)
That's what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there's food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so we don't have to think, because if we think we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be. (N)
When a shark is coming at you, you are already dead, old Nawi had said, and since you were already dead, then anything was worth trying ... (N)
A thought could be like a spear. You do not throw a spear at the widow, the orphan, the grieving ... (N)
'I want to know why. Why everything. I don't know the answers, but a few days ago I didn't know there were questions.' (N)
People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then. (N)
Another thing about Grandmother was her belief that a conversation consisted of someone else listening to her talking ... (N)
The secret was to wear ribbons in your hair and skip everywhere. It completely fooled people. (N)
'Life is a trick and you get one chance to learn it.' (N)
'You didn't want to be a warrior?'
'Never. It takes a woman nine months to make a new human. Why waste her effort?' (N) |
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