Quotes from the Dark Team
during the development of
Thief: The Dark Project
Chris: "I don't feel like a nut. Earlier I had no choice."
Mahk: "I should do work. Someone bring me my computer."
Tom: "You know, you're lucky I'm not wearing a g-string."
Chris: "Yeah, well, it's better to suck half as much."
Greg: "...than never to have sucked at all."
Mahk: "Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! I'm the bug fairy!"
Tim: "You're half right."
Dorian (to Mahk): "Where ya goin' with that pumpkin, son?"
Mahk: "Yeah, I just save cows."
Doug: "Just think, around November 5th, it will be tragically funny and suicidally grim no matter what."
Dorian: "Doncha be quotin' me, ya scurvy land-lubber! Arg!"
Randy: "Uh, pirates don't say 'quote.'"
Randy: "It could use some paprika."
Chris: "Paprika's the happy spice!"
Mahk: "I want to take damage, and possibly even shout when I take damage."
Dorian: "That can be arranged."
Dorian: "You know, I'm wearing tights right now."
Tim: "Mahk, you are one queer-ass freak."
Mahk: "You know, part of me wishes that that's the first time someone's told me that this week."
Mahk: "I don't know which flow brushes to delete. I suggest you just blast them all and let God sort them out."
Dorian: "When am I going to start kicking it's ass?"
Laura: "Seven to ten days."
Dorian: "But it's been seven to ten days!"
Laura: "Then you're starting to kick it's ass."
Mahk: "Why don't we all just Xerox our asses and ship THAT?"
Mahk: "So Laura says that my ranting is Environmental Sound and not Speech."
Tim: "What's that buzzing noise?"
Dorian: "It greatly affects one's workflow when one dies."
Mahk: "Guns don't kill people, _slay events_ kill people!"
Tim: "Where does the player arm come from?"
Mahk: "Well, there's a mommy player arm and a daddy player arm.."
Tim: "...and they both love each other very much. And the daddy player arm has a seed..."
Tim: "It may be that he finds the sound of the arrow entering his body slightly suspicious."
Mahk: "Qu'est-ce que c'est le frequency, Kenneth?"
Doug: "Is map.pcx you?"
Mahk: "Uh, it's not _identically_ me..."
Doug: "Well, I didn't mean it in the 'is map.pcx in his office' sense".
Mahk & Doug: "You're a Newtonian grinder!"
Chris: "I'm a what?"
Mahk: "It's like an organ grinder, but without the monkey."
Dorian: "You should have five servings of fruit a day."
Ken, endearingly: "Dorian, you're MY fruit of the day."
Tim: "We want the endgame to be the climax of the mission. And you can't sustain a
climax for 45 minutes. At least I can't."
Doug: "It may be stupid, but it's a well-oiled stupidity."
Tim: "It has a certain 'Je ne sais quoi', but I don't know what it is."
The Management: "The team bananas will be kept in my office until they ripen, so that
Mike doesn't eat them. Thank you."
Nate: "I had four of these [points to BIG cup] full of coffee today, and actually saw and spoke
to God...and he likes how the project's going."
Laura: "My arm won't come off!"
Tim: "It all came down to sheep."
Tim (to Kate): "I revoke your brain!"
Kate: "Your arm's only physical when you're thinking about it."
Tim: "There are no 'licking' attacks in this game."
Kate: "It's an unnatural thing to get back up from the dead anyway."
Mahk: "The physics system is a harsh mistress."
Randy: "Dorian is literal about everything."
Dorian: "No I'm not...'everything' is too strong a word to use."
Dorian: "Nobody uses the word 'ruly'."
Tim: "I know, I'm just feeling gruntled."
Dorian: "Next thing you know, you'll be plussed."
Kate: "It's his butt that has the velocity."
Mahk: "Yeah, I get killed all the time, these days."
Greg: "Hey! Where'd the humans go?"
Tim: "I'm very wary of the dangers of stacking objects, myself."
Guard: "Enough dancing!"
Dorian: "More singing!"
Greg: "There's a fine line between serenity and ennui."
Mahk: "If you're talking about me, I didn't touch the brain."
Tim: "[It's] like fingernails on the chalkboard of your soul."
Doug: "In my level, I've been using a bush and a rolling pin as a lockpick."
Mahk: "The quote list sure isn't going to help me convince my mom that I'm not gay."
