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Suddenly, she was not pretty at all; she looked like a thousand-year-old teenager who wanted something she knew she couldn’t have.
Expecting Someone Taller (1987)
His role in history was rather like that of lettuce in the average salad; it achieves no useful purpose, but there's always a lot of it.
Flying Dutch (1991)
“But the unforeseen consequences—”
“What consequences?”
“I don’t know, I can’t foresee them.”
The Devil You Know (2016)
In the beginning was the Word. Nobody knows what it actually was, although it would be nice to think that it was 'Sorry.
Ye Gods! (1992)
But Hildy was no longer afraid. She had reached the point where fear can no longer help, and anger offers the only hope of survival.
Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988)
What was going to happen now? In the end, every community and grouping of human beings (except, of course, the Rolling Stones) drifts apart and goes its separate ways.
Flying Dutch (1991)
“You’re Loge, aren’t you? It’s odd. I was frightened of you when I thought you were the taxman, but now you turn out to be a God, I’m not frightened at all.
Expecting Someone Taller (1987)
I see what you mean about making a will, actually, although I still maintain that forty quid spent on deciding what's going to happen after you're dead is a waste of good beer money.
Flying Dutch (1991)
But quotations and aphorisms are generally just verbal Christmas presents; enticingly done up in pretty paper and ribbons, but once you get them open they generally turn out to be just socks.
Barking (2007)
He had the answer to the secret of the universe in his hands, but he was more interested in saving his own neck and making money. Extraordinary man.
The Devil You Know (2016)
Boamund scratches his head. Imagine a knight by Alma-Tadema who's somehow managed to fall off the picture and is wondering how to get back in without breaking the glass.
Grailblazers (1994)
“Give me your word of honour.”
“On my word of honour,” said Danny. Obviously, he reflected, the man really didn’t know what a television producer was, or he would have demanded a different oath.
Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988)
I've said I'm not afraid of death, and that's true. Dying, though, is another matter. Dying slowly in great pain is something I actively try to avoid.
Ronnie Bosch sat in his studio, stared long and hard at his drawing board, and groaned.
Faust Among Equals (1994)
Here we go, surfing the Net again, something done by humans and very gullible fish.
Only Human (1999)
Good guys is just a fancy way of saying Us. Bad guys is only ever Them.' -
Paint Your Dragon (1996)
The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.
Ye Gods! (1992)
'Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.'
My Hero (1996)
Jane was a child of the media age, and there lurked in the back of her mind the instinctive belief that if a thing wasn't on the news, it couldn't really have happened after all.
Flying Dutch (1991)
Evolution takes no prisoners. A loathsome philosophy, but hard to argue against. Repulsive, but entirely valid. Otherwise, the Earth would still be populated by giant pea-brained lizards.
The Devil You Know (2016)