Gaspode Quotes & Sayings

the world's biggest — Dave Barry

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job. — Robin Williams

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. — Stefan Zweig

The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time. — Scott Ellis

He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest. — Terry Pratchett

What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter is someone who's got courage, who's dead game in a fight. Most guys don't come into the world that way. You learn to be brave through that process of getting your fear and timidity beaten out of you night after night after night. — Jonathan Gottschall

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win? — Jerry West

people who hated cats were often control freaks who felt the world owed them a living. — Tom Cox

We can't manipulate people into swallowing our boundaries by sugarcoating them. Boundaries are a "litmus test" for the quality of our relationships. Those people in our lives who can respect our boundaries will love our wills, our opinions, our separateness. Those who can't respect our boundaries are telling us that they don't love our nos. They only love our yeses, our compliance. "I only like it when you do what I want. — Henry Cloud

For our purposes, let's say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it's a system. If you're waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal. — Scott Adams

It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact.
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Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored. — Terry Pratchett

Yo, bitch," he said. "Vot vas that?" Gaspode reconsidered his strategy. "Hi, foxy ... er ... wolf lady," he tried. — Terry Pratchett

Wolves hate werewolves.'
'What? That can't be right! When she's wolf-shaped she's just like a wolf!'
'So? When she's human-shaped she's just like a human. And what's that got to do with anything? Humans don't like werewolves. Wolves don't like werewolves. People don't like wolves that can think like people, an' people don't like people who can act like wolves. Which just goes to show that people are the same everywhere.' said Gaspode. He assessed this sentence and added, 'Even when they're wolves. — Terry Pratchett

Real heroes are like poor old Gaspode. No one ever notices them until afterward. That's the reality. — Terry Pratchett