He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
Terry PratchettTags: humour good-omens
CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman.
Neil GaimanTags: humor diet famine good-omens sable-black sony-walkman
Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
Neil GaimanTags: evil good neil-gaiman terry-pratchett good-omens
There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.
Terry PratchettTags: humor environment beauty-in-nature good-omens
His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.
Terry PratchettTags: life age good-omens
Newton Pulsifer had never...as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe in something, since he recognized that belief was the lifebelt that got most people through the choppy waters of Life. He'd have liked to believe in a supreme God, although he'd have preferred a half-hour's chat with Him before committing himself, to clear up one or two points. He'd sat in all sorts of churches, waiting for that single flash of blue light, and it hadn't come. And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard, self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. And every single political party had seemed to him equally dishonest. ....
Then he'd tried believing in the Universe, which seemed sound enough until he'd innocently started reading new books with words like Chaos and Time and Quantum in the titles. He'd found that even the people whose job of work was, so to speak, the Universe, didn't really believe in it and were actually quite proud of not knowing what it really was or even if it could theoretically exist.
To Newt's straightforward mind this was intolerable.
Tags: religion neil-gaiman terry-pratchett good-omens
But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
Terry PratchettTags: humour fiction funny neil-gaiman good-omens terry-prachett
Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.
That would do it every time.
Tags: humor neil-gaiman crowley terry-pratchett good-omens
You think wars get started because some duke gets shot, or someone cuts off one’s ear, or someone’s sited their missiles in the wrong place. It’s not like that. That’s just well, just reasons, which haven’t got anything to do with it. What really causes wars is two sides that can’t stand the sight of one another and the pressure builds up and up and then anything will cause it. Anything at all.
Terry PratchettTags: neil-gaiman terry-pratchett good-omens
You don’t have to test everything to destruction just to see if you make it right.
Terry PratchettTags: neil-gaiman terry-pratchett good-omens
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