Cohen The Barbarian Quotes

Didn’t you want to be anything?” said Ginger, putting a whole sentence-worth of disdain in a mere three letters. “Not really,” said Victor. “Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job. I bet even people like Cohen the Barbarian get up in the morning thinking, ‘Oh, no, not another day of crushing the jeweled thrones of the world beneath my sandalled feet.’” “Is that what he does?” said Ginger, interested despite herself. “According to the stories, yes.” “Why?” “Search me. It’s just a job, I guess.

Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find its just another job. I bet even people like Cohen the Barbarian get up in the morning thinking, 'Oh, no, not another day of crushing the jeweled thrones of the world beneath my sandalled feet.

Something had to be done fast. A letter: that was the answer. As many lawyers do when nursing a grievance, Nusbaum knew it was important to get their anger down into writing. As Cohen and the investment bankers shouted and cursed around him, he began dictating

Sybil, also, thought Gustav’s caution rather exaggerated. Middle-aged men become suspicious of everything and want their comforts, that was their privilege. She, however, was not so old and would willingly give up a little comfort for the sake of a thrill. Even after she had discounted the ecstasy in Gutwetter’s words, the fact remained that an enormously interesting drama was going on: the unforeseen swamping of a civilized country by the barbarians. She awaited the outcome of this drama with the intense excitement of a child awaiting the scheduled feeding time in front of a cage of wild beasts. She must not miss that drama.

What’re you saying? There’s nearly five hundred years of concentrated barbarian hero experience in ’em,” said Cohen. “Five hundred years’ experience in a fighting unit is good,” said Rincewind. “It’s good. But it should be spread over more than one person. I mean, what are you expecting them to do? Fall over on people?