Terry Pratchett Quotes
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.
...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.
And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.
The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.
The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.
Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.
They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but has anyone checked lately?