Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategythat eluded him at the moment.
Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erraticaly in all directions, that the chance of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme.
WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?
We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you? Why? It saves time.
Welcome to the world, he said wearily. You get used to it after a while.
Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree...
You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn’t it? Sorry.
You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of fo...
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the ba...
Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it.No, actually it isn't, said Tiffany. Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.
[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and a...
What was once considered impossible is now quite easily achieved. Kings and lords come and go and leave nothing but statues in a desert, while a couple of young men tinkering in a workshop change the...
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will hav...
Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had...
Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.
And all those frogs going 'Rabbit, rabbit'...I think, sir, that it was 'Ribbit, ribbit'...So, what goes 'Rabbit, rabbit'?Rabbits, I think. All the time...
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.
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