Cohen The Barbarian Discworld Quotes

#1. American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.

Raymond Loewy

#2. No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.

E.B. White

#3. Knowing that home was hateful to us both, I imagined that her calling me by the word meant I was expedient, or sturdy; but if I could only keep her hand in mine, I knew I would give my four limbs and my heart for the privilege, becoming instead four walls and a roof.

Lyndsay Faye

#4. Mel exhaled. Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.

Kresley Cole

#5. Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

Peter Thiel

#6. It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. It's utterly infuriating, the number of people I've encountered in my life who claimed to be the authority on God's will.

Rae Carson

#8. I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.

Pete Way

#9. People that come to my shows are definitely people that feel outsiders. They feel like I don't feel sexy, I don't feel like - I can't go out every night on Friday and I can't connect to that, and I feel so much pressure to do that.

Emeli Sande

#10. Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral

Arthur C. Clarke

#11. Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.

Nancy Kress

#12. Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.

Carlo Borromeo

#13. Life is a choice ... it's a choice to be successful.

Josh Thomson