25 quotes found
“After all, why be right when you can be happy.”
“Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.”
“{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,”
“There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.”
“If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he'd have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.”
“Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.”
“Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why inventions father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasnt been heard of since.”
“When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.”
“After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?”
“You mean it's to be peace between you and Elizabeth until after the Tapestry?" cried Georgie, horrified. The prospect of a cessation of hostilities was appalling, for this warfare provided him with...”
“He believes its time to redesign Evil from the ground up; to face the challenges and opportunities of a diverse, rapidly changing society.Hes thinking of calling it, said Miss Gold, New Evil.”
“Mr Winckler clapped his hands together. Evil, as personified by me. Meet the new Dark Lord. But you can call me Albert.”
“Realism without naturalism... is a leading motif in Modern Art. There is a move away from the struggle to perfect the reflection of Nature in Art's mirror, which I attribute to the all-pervading ef...”
“Most thoughtful,"...[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignore ...[the] coup entirely--an established tactic, most irritating to the innovator but hard to sus...”
“How careless of me!" By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.”
“There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous d...”
“Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.”
“Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.”
“He turned and gave the Dark Elf a nasty look. They can do that, he said, mess with your head, using arcane mind control techniques. Well-known fact.The Dark Elf sniggered. I wish, he said. Sadly, n...”
“As the Athenians to the Pnyx, the antique Romans to the Campus Martius, or our Nordic ancestors to the All-Thing, so the folk of Tilling flocked to the High Street for extempore parliament.”
