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- Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean…
- The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation…
- He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
- 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…
- Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
- It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit that it looked…
- Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning…
- It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever…
- It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of…
- Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians…
- You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette…
- Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of…
- IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh…
- You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this…
- Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows…
- Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly…
- But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial…
- Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
- YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF…
- He’sh mad?’ ‘Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.’ ‘Ah, then he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh…
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- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are… — Julian Assange
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball
- If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people… — J. G. Ballard