Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?
But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.
You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.
Don’t feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers.
Trust me. I haven’t been wrong yet.
I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?
The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet.
You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he’s never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually.
Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?
Yes, Chix, it’s between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. – Foaly.
I often meet frustrated young writers who say they’ve only got so far and just can’t finish a book. Even if you don’t happen to use what you’ve worked on that day, it has taught you something and you’ll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.
Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had jumped to reach the button, but that was undignified behavior for a millionaire. And besides, he was certain that Art could hear the thumping from the security desk.
Careful, Mr. Spiro, guns are dangerous. Especially the end with the hole.
How did that go?’ he asked. ‘Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age?’ ‘Fabulous,’ said Artemis, voice dripping with sarcasm. ‘We’re planning a June wedding.
There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B’wa Kell.
I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it’s an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn’t.
What many people don’t know about ‘Peter Pan’ is that it’s a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.
I have always loved ‘Stig of the Dump.’ I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
Hey, look your girlfriend is saying something. Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn’t even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl?