Truckers Quotes
Truckers
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“The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.”
― Truckers
― Truckers
“How many books are there?" said Masklin.
"Hundreds! Thousands!"
"Do you know what they're all about?"
Gurder looked at him blankly. "Do you know what you're saying?" he said.
"No. But I want to find out."
"They're about everything! You'd never believe it! They're full of words even I don't understand!"
"Can you find a book which tells you how to understand words you don't understand?" said Masklin.
Gurder hesitated. "It's an intriguing thought," he said.”
― Truckers
"Hundreds! Thousands!"
"Do you know what they're all about?"
Gurder looked at him blankly. "Do you know what you're saying?" he said.
"No. But I want to find out."
"They're about everything! You'd never believe it! They're full of words even I don't understand!"
"Can you find a book which tells you how to understand words you don't understand?" said Masklin.
Gurder hesitated. "It's an intriguing thought," he said.”
― Truckers
“It was always a good idea, he said, to be good at something other people couldn’t or didn’t want to do.”
― Truckers
― Truckers
“The sky rained dismal. It rained humdrum. It rained the kind of rain that is so much wetter than normal rain, the kind of rain that comes down in big drops and splats, the kind of rain that is merely and upright sea with slots in it.”
― Truckers
― Truckers
“This was one of those times when time itself slowed down and everything was suddenly more real. Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.”
― Truckers
― Truckers
“I don’t know enough words, he thought. Some things you can’t think unless you know the right words.”
― Truckers
― Truckers
“He had room only for a certain number of ideas in his head, and once one had taken root, you couldn’t budge it.”
― Truckers
― Truckers
“Why is it that as soon as a nome has all he needs to eat and drink, he starts to bicker with other nomes? There must be more to being a nome than this.”
― Truckers
― Truckers
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― Truckers
― Truckers
“It seemed the only time nomes acted together was when they had something to occupy their minds.”
― Truckers
― Truckers
“The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each one of them into tricky jobs, and each one of them .”
― Truckers
― Truckers
“The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong, but being certain. Otherwise people wouldn’t know what to think. Of course, it helps to be right as well,”
― Truckers
― Truckers
“I think all we really want is to go home and be safe,” said Masklin. “Go home.” “That’s right.” “And be safe.” “Yes.” Later on, those five words became one of the most famous quotations in nome history. They got taught in schools. They got carved in stone.”
― Truckers
― Truckers
