אה, ציטוטים... המומחיות שלי
Just twist the first thing you can grab, as the High Priest said to the vestal virgin It seems we need someone who knows what colour a liver is supposed to be By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold. "And his table manners! Did you notice them?" "No" "Ex-actly!" There's a dwarfish saying: "All trees are felled at ground-level" -- although this is said to be an excessively bowdlerized translation for a saw which more literally means, "When his hands are higher than your head, his groin is level with your teeth." I'm reminded of the time when old Prince Lasgere of Tsort asked me how he could become learned, especially since he hadn't got any time for this reading business. I said to him, 'There is no royal road to learning, sire,' and he said to me, 'Bloody well build one or I shall have your legs chopped off. Use as many slaves as you like.' A refreshingly direct approach, I always thought. Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words. "...and then Jack chopped down the beanstalk, adding murder and ecological vandalism to the theft, enticement and trespass charges already mentioned, but he got away with it and lived happily ever after without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done. Which proves that you can be excused just about anything if you're a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions." Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them. The members of the Guild of Assassins considered themselves cultured men who enjoyed good music and food and literature. And they knew the value of human life. To a penny, in many cases. Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage Seven thousand years are just one day at a time He had come to believe that the Sun Emperor was not, in fact, the Lord of Heaven, the Pillar of the Sky and the Great River of Blessings, but an evil-minded madman whose death had been too long delayed. If we was men, we'd be talking about layin' down our lives for the country. As women, we can talk about laying down What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up? Courage, bravery and the indomitable human spirit are fine things which nevertheless tend to take second place to the combination of courage, bravery, the indomitable human spirit and a 6:1 superiority of numbers Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a small-minded little jerk