Raising Steam Quotes

“Moist waited. Lord Vetinari could outstare a statue and make even a statue start to feel nervous and confess. Moist's counter was a fetching grin, which he knew annoyed Vetinari beyond measure, and there was absolute silence in the Oblong Office while blank stare and cheery grin battled it out for supremacy in some other dimension.”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day.”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“And in this doleful mood he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not fangled at all as against the modern day when fangled had reached its apogee. Fangling was indeed, he thought, here to stay. Then he wondered: had anyone ever thought of themselves as a fangler?”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“He loved the fact that if you got your customer laughing then you had their money in your pocket”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“Tak did not expect the stone to have life, but when it did, he smiled upon it, saying "All Things Strive". Time and time again the last testament of Tak has been stolen in a pathetic attempt to kill the nascent future at birth and this is not only an untruth, it is a blasphemy! Tak even finds it in his heart to suffer the Nac Mac Feegles, possibly for their entertainment value, but I wonder if he will continue to tolerate us... He must look at us now with sorrow, which I hope will not turn into rage. Surely the patience of Tak must find some limitations elsewhere...”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the real world drips its way in.”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“Następnego dnia Moista von Lipwiga delikatnie zbudził Crossly, który jak dotąd nie zdołał pojąć stosunku swego pracodawcy do snu. Stosunek ten został więc wyrażony przez odwrócenie się Moista na drugi bok i uwagę:
- Błebłe błebłe wrm błebłe erm błebłe zostaw!”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“Choć kolacja miała być prywatna i nieoficjalna, Effie Król podeszła do niej z całą powagą. Zaczęła swoje przygotowania od bólu głowy, potem przeszła do roztrzęsienia, a dalej płynnie do organizacji przedsięwzięcia o militarnej precyzji i rozmachu. Po drodze zastraszyła kucharzy i gorączkowo sprawdzała na przykład, jakiej łyżki używa się do jakiej zupy.”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam