It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air. (SG)
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She thinks she has a romantic soul. In fact she has a very solid and down-to-earth soul that underpins a romantic mind. (PP)
'... this may well have been a case where chilly logic should have been replaced by the common sense of, perhaps, the average chicken.' (MM)
And his mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what had happened hadn’t really happened and, if it had happened, hadn’t happened
much. (Th) When it came to getting weird things done, sane beat mad hands down. (TOT)
'You’re daft, Walter Plinge,’ she said.
‘Daft as a broom Mrs Ogg!’ said Walter cheerfully. But you ain’t insane, she thought. You’re daft but you’re sane. That’s what Esme would say. And there’s worser things. (Ma) This is the butterfly of the storms.
See the wings, slightly more ragged than those of the common fritillary. In reality, thanks to the fractal nature of the universe, this means that those ragged edges are infinite – in the same way that the edge of any rugged coastline, when measured to the ultimate microscopic level, is infinitely long – or, if not infinite, then at least so close to it that Infinity can be seen on a clear day. And therefore, if their edges are infinitely long, the wings must logically be infinitely big. They may look the right size for a butterfly’s wings, but that’s only because human beings have always preferred common sense to logic. (IT) ... any woman setting out to make a living by the sword isn’t about to go around looking like something off the cover of the more advanced kind of lingerie catalogue for the specialised buyer. (LF)
‘Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage,’ he said. (MA)
'Who are you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to…fairytales and monsters, and there’s a schoolteacher walking around?’
‘Best kind of person to have,’ said Susan. ‘We don’t like silliness. Anyway, I told you, I’ve inherited certain talents.’ ‘Like living outside time?’ ‘That’s one of them.’ ‘It’s a weird talent for a schoolteacher!’ ‘Good for marking, though,’ said Susan calmly. (TOT) Dwarfs are known for their sense of humour, in a way. People point them out and say: ‘Those little devils haven’t got a sense of humour.' (MA)
All dwarfs are by nature dutiful, serious, literate, obedient and thoughtful people whose only minor failing is a tendency, after one drink, to rush at enemies screaming ‘Arrrrrrgh!’ and axing their legs off at the knee. (GG)
When you spend a large part of your life underground, you develop a very literal mind. Dwarfs have no use for metaphor and simile. Rocks are hard, the darkness is dark. Start messing around with descriptions like that and you’re in big trouble, is their motto. (GG)
'My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure,’ said Carrot.
‘Really? Well, there’s eleven of them.' (J) |
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