Angua Quotes

#1. I thought dwarfs loved gold," said Angua.
"They just say that to get it into bed.

Terry Pratchett

#2. You're not suggesting that Vetinari tucks into a nice rat every day?" said Angua.
"I've heard he uses rats as spies, so I don't think he'd use them as elevenses," said Carrot.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident."
"I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Oh, all right! But this doesn't mean we're bonding!" "Fine. Fine." "I'm not a bondage kind of person," Angua added. "Yes, yes," said Sally. "I can see that.

Terry Pratchett

#5. We are naked, lance-constable!' 'Only technically. This mud really sticks.' 'I mean underneath the mud!' said Angua. 'Yes, but if we had clothes on we'd be naked underneath them, too!' Sally pointed out.

Terry Pratchett

#6. 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.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Anyway, Angua seemed to have taken this case personally. She always had a soft spot for the underdog.
So did Vimes. You had to. Not because they were pure or noble, because they weren't. You had to be on the side of underdogs because they weren't overdogs.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Angua sighed and stepped into the room behind the little museum. It was like the back rooms of museums everywhere, full of junk and things there is no room for on the shelves and also items of doubtful provenance, such as coins dated '52 BC'.

Terry Pratchett

#9. You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant.
You mean the sledgehammer, sir?
Yes.

Terry Pratchett

#10. When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep "blood diamonds" out of international trade.

Peter Singer

#11. The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

Jeremy Taylor

#12. In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

Diane Ackerman

#13. I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Avicenna

#14. I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

Aphex Twin

#15. Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

Hugh Laurie

#16. Throw everything away, forget about it all!

Mooji

#17. There are only two things to remember. Number one ... Don't Stop, and number two ... Keep Going!

Frank Zappa

#18. LAURA. Yes! It's strange, but I've never been able to look at a man without feeling I'm his superior. CAPTAIN

August Strindberg

#19. Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

Andy Warhol

#20. Reading books is good,
Rereading good books is better.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#21. The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

Anne Frank

#22. I train every time I open my mouth

Brian Howard Clough

#23. You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to be on top of the story, but words do matter.

Wolf Blitzer

#24. The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality.

Ilana Mercer