“Love can be just like hot peppers, exciting on the way in and agonizing on the way out.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Simon did not solve problems, he just shamed them into going away.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“At the last moment, she remembered that her Master might be watching her and, knowing that good girls bend at the knees while bad girls bend at the waist, she picked up the cigar butt, as it were, in style.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“You learned a lot by playing RPGs, although not all of it was useful, or real for that matter – unless you really believed that wolves normally carry seven gold pieces, a flawed garnet, a scroll of ice storm, and a lock pick somewhere about their person.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“It was all kind of fuzzy, as if his mind was doing its thinking in limericks.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults look for a length of rope and some soap.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“The conversation had been so lacking in quality that it actually made Toddlers and Tiaras look like good entertainment by comparison.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Let’s see, you will need a project plan, resource allocation, a timeline, test cycles, a budget, a contingency budget, lots of diagrams, flowcharts, a media release, a strategic vision, a charter, technical specifications, business rules, travel expenses, a development environment, deployment instructions, a user acceptance test, stationary, overtime schedule, a mock-up, prototypes…”
“Tell me,” she said, “did the people who built the pyramids have any of those?”
“Mostly, they had beer. Come to think of it, if there had been such a thing as a Business Analyst in ancient Egypt, then the hieroglyph for it would have been very graphical, if you know what I mean.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“It probably wasn’t entirely her fault that she was such a bitter person. Having a name like Grace can be a serious stigma, especially when nature has endowed you with about as much charm as that of a disillusioned walrus.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that was Master Sewer’s soul, a high-pitched anxiety fart rustled through the still leaves. If farts could talk, this one would have said, “Damn coppers!”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Master Dung’s study was silent. So silent, in fact, that one might have been able to hear a gnat passing air, if only an obligingly flatulent gnat had happened nearby.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Tradition, thought Merkin, was not the most reliable thing in the world. Tradition had this nasty habit of asserting itself overnight. A new species of funny-shaped, bioluminescent invertebrate found sixteen thousand feet under the ocean might instantly become part of the Chinese traditional medicine, for instance. You never knew.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“He knew for a fact that he was so hopelessly bad at seeing through camouflage that, if left alone in the forest, he might even attempt to make fire by rubbing two snakes together.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“There was a rare quality about Nurse Grace’s smile. It was the knowledge that sooner or later her smile would inspire some witty observer to say something around the lines of, “Every time you do this, an angel farts”.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Wonderful craftsmanship, Simon decided with the expert eye of one who had played enough computer games to know art when he saw it.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“What makes the Arctic VarChar so unusual and popular is that each bite has a different taste. As you carve your way into the ersatz fillet, you might find yourself chewing on smoked salmon, tender tuna, marinated mackerel, seared snapper, raw roe, baked barracuda, grilled goldfish, or even pickled perch, to alliterate just a few.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Dishwasher safe, debit only,” Deborah produced from the arsenal of useful English words for immigrants, with barely a pause for thought.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Merkin had used only one drop of the “just soap.” Two drops would have made her Master walk slightly awkwardly. Three drops would have made a Victorian gentleman utter something really lustful, such as “you transfix me quite.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Her assignment had been to write a simple Sumerian code for preserving a jar of pickled eggs. (To the programming-inclined reader, this is the magical equivalent of “HELLO WORLD.”)”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“He acts like he’s in one of those Hollywood movies where after spending a couple of weeks with the natives in a remote Amazonian village, the white explorer is already debating the nature of the universe with the Chief in passable lingo. Except that in the movie, he ends up shagging the prize virgin whose body looks as if the jungle is really just a spa. What he doesn’t know is that ten years down the road, she will wind up looking like all the other women in the village: saggy tits, rotten teeth, and about as supple as a mother of eight can be.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“FEBRIZIUM();” said Buggeroff, and the foul smell immediately disappeared as if by, well − Magic.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Are you single?” inquired − rather bluntly − the email titled “Career Opportunity.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“Let’s just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things back into place with the possible, and otherwise notable, exception of the platypus and a moronic drinking game that later evolved into the imperial measurement system.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
“On a scale ranging from very little to too much, Merkin could just about categorize the amount of personal data stored in Master Loo’s computer as a shitload.”
― Sorin Suciu, quote from The Scriptlings
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“There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.”
― Stephen Fry, quote from Moab Is My Washpot
“If she stayed here, she would forfeit her family, friends, and freedom forever. She would also have to die, probably sooner rather than later. If she left, she would be back with her loved ones, back in the life that she cherished so much, but she would be leaving a big piece of herself behind. A piece she didn't think she would ever find again, in fact she was certain that she wouldn't.”
― Erica Stevens, quote from Captured
“There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from The Black Cauldron
“He could easily imagine what people would say if they could see him now: exactly the same thing they'd say if someone had told them that Ray from work was a transvestite or that Ted from next door had anonymous gay sex at highway rest stops. They'd shake their heads with their heads with the standard combination of amusement, pity, and smug superiority, and say, Ha-ha-ha, poor Ray. Ho-ho-ho, poor Ted. At least I'm not like that. But we want what we want, Richard thought, and there's not much we can do about it.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from Little Children
“Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work."
"He's mexican" Troy added.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Skeleton Key
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