Abdul > Abdul's Quotes

“That was when something hit me. The white suit he was wearing wasn't just a fashion choice. I mean, who actually dresses like that? Nobody, at least nobody in reality. Yeah, Ok, his big friend was in standard spook/secret service/bodyguard gear, but this guy? He was a walking cliche. It was like somebody said to me, Hey Chris, can you imagine a Colombian drug lord for me please? And this guy had popped up as the end result.”
― Luke Smitherd, Kill Someone

“Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn’t mad because, if he was mad, that left no word at all to describe some of the people he met.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“For a moment Carl tried to picture everything in his mind, and then it happened. Somewhere inside of him, where cause and effect were not weighted against each other, and where logic and explanations never challenged consciousness, in that place where thoughts could live freely and played out against each other - right there in that spot, things fell into place, and he understood how it all fitted together”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Carl sent a message from his brain to his hands that it was still illegal to strangle people.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Carl: Do I happen to see a twinkle in your eye, or do you always look so fantastic Lis?

Lis: Carl dear, the twinkle in my eye is reserved for my husband and children, When are you going to accept that?

Carl: I'll accept it the day the light vanishes and eternal darkness swallows me up along with the rest of the earth.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Was she pregnant then?' asked Assad. Judging by the number of family members in his photos, it was a feminine condition with which he was quite familiar.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“She is really really so beautiful there,' said Assad.
Carl glanced at him. Apparently a woman's appearance was a particularly valuable factor in his assistant's world-view. But Carl agreed with him.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“She was a bitch,' Carl suddenly heard somebody say in the background, and that apparently refreshed everyone's memory.

Yes, thought Carl with satisfaction. It's the good stable arseholes like us who are remembered best.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Assad: 'I have written it just down here.'

He Pointed to a number of Arabic symbols that could just as well have meant it was going to snow in the Lofoten Islands in the morning.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen

“When he turned round with the cup to his mouth, nostrils titillated by the aroma of a sun that had once shone on a Colombian coffee farmer's fields, Klavs Jeppensen's chair was empty.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Disgrace

“Her boozy breath was day-old, but of quality of Origin. Malt whisky, Carl guessed. The air was so thick with it, an expert would probably be able to determine the vintage.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Disgrace

“Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Disgrace

“Carl Mørck, am I disturbing you? said a voice at the door, which made his blood boil and turn to ice at the same time. His spinal cord sent five commands through his infrastructure: get rid of the eraser, cover the last line, put away the cigarette, drop the stupid facial expression, close your mouth!”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Disgrace

“If you want to know what the camel stole from your kitchen yesterday, then you shouldn;t slit open its stomach. You should stare into its arsehole.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen

“He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Disgrace

“Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Disgrace

“The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times: The Play

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“The turtle moves.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Every single part of our entrepreneurial journey will begin as an idea that will only become reality when we show up and bring it into the world.”
― Carrie Green, She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur

“It seemed sometimes that life was nothing more than the accumulation of emotional baggage-memories,regrets and lost opportunities.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Interestingly, two hundred years later and twenty light years away, people still behaved the same in elevators as they did in Original Bob’s day. Everyone turned to face the doors, and ignored each other.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“If there was a hell, it was in sales.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“But right or wrong, I’ll die in peace. And Pascal’s Wager works both ways, right?” I nodded, returning his smile. “Yup. If you’re wrong, you won’t have the opportunity to regret it.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“Don’t make the common mistake of thinking your opponents are stupid just because they don’t see things your way,”
― Dennis E. Taylor, All These Worlds

“You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button