I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die.
I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmoth...
A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.
Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he no longer did.
Whenever Elliot Norther’s wife was nervous she baked. With the murder of Harriet Mason, her husband’s close colleague at the Faculty, she had been unable to resist a couple of Victoria sponges. During...
Well, I warn you, love, that if you cast me out I shall build me a willow cabin at your gates - and likely die of inflammation of the lungs, for November is *not the month for building willow cabins!
Thorne scoffed. is my middle name. Right after and .Do you even know what you're saying half the time? asked Cinder.
The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be.
Say, ‘Thank you, Phin.’ Oh, please.Say, Thank youvery much, Phin. I don’t think so.Say, ‘You are a great lover, Phin.’ I’m out of here.
Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it’s semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance and beauty
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place t...
Listen, I didn’t ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents’ DNA, I’ve got them, and I’m not ashamed to use ’em.
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it...My purse is full enough, said the magus, to keep you suppli...
I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.''That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower.'I know. That's the trouble.' Rincewind sighed again.
I do no damage. This is damage, this.He picked up a paper from Camille’s desk. I can’t read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out...
All he wanted was enough time to consider all his options without being dragged into his household’s petty squabbles or being nagged by his wife about that damnable pilgrimage. Was that so much to ask...
Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first? Asked Holmes, with some asperity.To the man of precised, scientif...