‘Our skills, you will find, could be our jailers.’ (SC)
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‘Special skills?’
‘Stayin’ alive, corporal, come what may.’ (MR) ... it isn’t cookery books that are needed half so much as cooks who know what they are doing and can make a meal out of anything. (NOC)
‘Mum’s are mums, Lance-Corporal. They don’t like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on.’ (NW)
'I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.' (LH)
'... them as has it in them to shine will shine through six layers of muck, whereas those we ain't shiny won't shine however much you buff 'em.' (TOT)
... what you were made as wasn't what you had to be or what you might become ... (FE)
'Anyone can rise if they have enough yeast.' (Do)
'Well, if it was a choice of wishing a child health, wealth and happiness, or Granny Weatherwax on her side, I know which I'd choose,' said Magrat. (CJ)
... she lived in hope, and prepared her granddaughter for a royal life by seeing to it, whenever possible, that Ermintrude was not taught anything that could possibly be of any practical use whatsoever. (N)
... what was so special about 'special qualities'? Limpets had special qualities. (J)
'In my experience,' said Glod, 'what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.' (SM)
'We haven't even practised together properlly,' said Imp.
'We'll practice as we go along,' said Glod. 'Welcome to the world of professional musicianship.' (SM) The old bards said they got better as they got older, although the old men tend to say this sort of thing regardless of daily experience. (SM)
‘You are smart enough to be extremely good, but not impossibly good. Even a very observant and highly sceptical witness can go away from the show believing he has seen through your tricks, and feeling pleasantly self-satisfied as a result, while understanding nothing of the reality of your abilities.’ (LU)
‘You know what the greatest tragedy in the whole world is?’ said Ginger, not paying him the least attention. ‘It’s all the people who never find out what they really want to do or what it is they’re really good at. It’s all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It’s all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become ploughmen instead. It’s all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it’s even possible to find out.’
She took a deep breath. ‘It’s all the people who never get to know what it is they can really be. It’s all the wasted chances.’ (MP) “He said he liked my singing too. Everyone else said it sounded like a flock of vultures who’ve just found a dead donkey.” (P)
Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped. (P)
He wasn’t any good at magic, but he’d had a hundred per cent success at staying alive up to now and didn’t want to spoil the record. All he needed to do was to learn how to swim in the time it took to dive into the sea. It was worth a try. (S)
Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it … (LF)
It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny. (RM)
‘What is the worth of a gold coin compared to the dexterity of the hand that holds it?’ (MM)
When people talk about their great past they’re usually trying to excuse their mediocre present. (BOS)
… you could forgive anyone who could score from the centre spot … (Sn)
'… the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.' (ISWM)
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