“One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.”
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“But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.”
“People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.”
“TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.”
“Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.”
“My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.”
“Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.”
“Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.”
“Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal.”
“Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.”
“There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.”
“This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.”
“Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.”
“Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.”
“Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?”
“I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.”
“Beware the autumn people”
“I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.”
“Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.”
“It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.”