This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all...
The fastest way to travel is to be there already.
Look, this is just the cemetery. It's got bylaws and things! It's not Transylvania! There's just dead people here! That doesn't make it scary, does it? Dead people are people who were living once! You...
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.
Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that.
Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.
A dwarf who can't get the hang of metal? That must be pretty unique.Pretty rare, sir. But I was quite good at alchemy..Guild member?Not any more, sir.Oh? How did you leave the guild?Through the roof,...
There was a bird whistle as Polly neared the hiding place. She identified this one as the sound of the Very Bad Bird Impersonator…
Sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen is work. Thousands of offices operate on this very principle.
Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave,' said Vorbis.'So I understand,' said the Tyrant. 'I imagine that fish have no word for water.
Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.'Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listenin...
History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be...
Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.
The R is the wrong way roond and you left the A and a Y out of Anybody,' said Jeannie, because it is a wife's job to stop her husband actually exploding with pride.'Ach, wumman, I didna' ken which way...
But what we have here is not a nice girl, as generally understood. For one thing, she’s not beautiful. There’s a certain set to the jaw and arch to the nose that might, with a following wind and in th...
There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
WHERE'S MY COW?!IS THAT MY COW?!HRRRUUUUGGGH!!!!
Aye, Rob, but we canna help noticin' ye also have tae do the Explainin', too,' said Daft Wullie. There was a general nodding from the crowd. To Feegles, Explaining was a dark art. It was just so HARD....
Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn’t trust it. Often you couldn’t even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else—coincidence, maybe, or providence. Y...
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