The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.
This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.
People went looking to find themselves and what they found was somebody else.
It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.
In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to...
Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Not all questions are answered, commander, but fortunately some answers are questioned.
Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it c...
The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
Strength enough to build a home,
It was impossible for him to get bored. He just didn't have the imagination.
It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don’t normally impinge on the world because the extra dimensions are very small and cu...
Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only...
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
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