Quotes from Interesting Times: The Play

“Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

“Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

“Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

“Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

“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.”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

“Barbarism? Hah! When we kills people we do it there and then, lookin' 'em in the eye, and we'd be happy to buy 'em a drink in the next world, no harm done. I never knew a barbarian who cut up people slowly in little rooms, or tortured women to make 'em look pretty, or put poison in people's grub. Civilization? If that's civilization, you can shove it where the sun don't shine!”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

“Your wife is a big hippo! My face is melting! My face is meltinnnnggg!”
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“Human beings have always preferred common sense to logic.”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

“Good so be would you if, duff plum of helping second A," said the Bursar.
The table fell silent.
"Did anyone understand that?" said Ridcully.
The Bursar was not technically insane. He had passed through the rapids of insanity som time previously, and was now sculling around in some peaceful pool on the other side. He was quite often coherent, although not by normal human standards.”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

“Oh... and Bacon Surprise.'
REALLY? WHAT IS SO SURPRISING ABOUT BACON?
'I don't know. I suppose it comes as something of a shock to the pig.”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

“Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.”
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“That bit where that lad sprang backwards right across the room with them axes in his hands was impressive, though."

"Yeah."

"You didn't ought to have stuck your sword out like that, I thought."

"He's learned an important lesson."

"It won't do him much good now where he's gone.”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

“There was, he thought, probably something in the idea that there were only a few people in the world. There were lots of bodies, but only a few people. That's why you kept running into the same ones.”
― quote from Interesting Times: The Play

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“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited her, silenced her, and even decades after it was supposed to have ended, still acted with a high hand in resolving her affairs in places like Côte d'Ivoire, a name she had been given because of her export products, not her own identity.
Her name was Asia. His was Europe. Her name was silence. His was power. Her name was poverty. His was wealth. Her name was Her, but what was hers? His name was His, and he presumed everything was his, including her, and he thought be could take her without asking and without consequences. It was a very old story, though its outcome had been changing a little in recent decades. And this time around the consequences are shaking a lot of foundations, all of which clearly needed shaking.
Who would ever write a fable as obvious, as heavy-handed as the story we've been given?
...
His name was privilege, but hers was possibility. His was the same old story, but hers was a new one about the possibility of changing a story that remains unfinished, that includes all of us, that matters so much, that we will watch but also make and tell in the weeks, months, years, decades to come.”
― Rebecca Solnit, quote from Men Explain Things to Me

“when someone is going out of their way to make you miserable, recognize that it’s the enemy using that person to discourage you.”
― Michelle Stimpson, quote from Boaz Brown

“Our story begins eight years ago when Ms.
Jacobs was living in London with Mr. McAllister.
However, she had to leave the country urgently
due to a family emergency.”
“Considering the ‘he-was-dead’ defence, I’m
sure this will be hugely entertaining.” Lily didn’t
see it but she heard the scoffing behind Nate’s attorney’s
tone, that would be attorney number two
or Sarcastic Attorney. Her startled eyes moved to
the man who, she noted distractedly, was staring
at her with extreme distaste.
“Well, I’m not sure one would describe losing
both of one’s parents in a plane crash as ‘entertaining’,”
Alistair noted blandly.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Three Wishes

“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity. ”
― Luo Guanzhong, quote from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1: (with footnotes and maps) (Romance of the Three Kingdoms (with footnotes and maps))

“There’s only one woman on the face of this planet who I’d let fucking cuff me. And you are not her.”
― quote from Collateral

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