84 result(s) for Terry Pratchett Quotes.
"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
"The librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves."
"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
"Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out."
"Love had many guises. They were all good. One thing was sure – love was something he eventually would grow out of. "
"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
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"It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing."
"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often the result of lack of wisdom."
"The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks."
"It is forbidden to steal do not persist in trying."
"Psst… kid, wanna buy some magic?"
"People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful lives, because, when they jostle people, they tend to stay jostled."
"The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head."
"It is a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong."
"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
"He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in dry woolen clothes holding up a golf club."
"It's still magic even if you know how it's done."
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along."
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"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
"There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this."
"It’s not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy."
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
"You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look."
"It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living."
"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it."
"The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head."
"Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle."
"It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done."
"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done."
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
"Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."
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"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
"It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it."
"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."
"The presence of actual intelligence in the Universe is a debatable issue."
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."
"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
"Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life."
"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it."
"There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt."
"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can."
"Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn’t the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn’t know the position of anywhere else."
"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."
"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
"Sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is."
"Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed anymore."
"Stories only happen to people who can tell them."
"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called living."
"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."
"There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do."
"Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape."
"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world fade away."
"It was amazing how confused people could become when faced with a perfectly logical explanation that they didn't want to believe."
"If I didn't have a sense of humor, I couldn't live."
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind."
"They say that the city iself is alive. I don't know... But certainly it has a soul."
"Stories. Myths. The things people believe in. It's on of the ways you can tell what a people are like."
"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."
"There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to be let go of."
"Most witches don't believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They just don't believe in them."
"Evolution is not a moral philosophy, whatever some people may try to tell you. It describes a process, not a creed. Nature is ruthless, wasteful and ethically neutral."
"The only reason that you are seeing me is that I decided that I want you to see me. I control your senses. Don't think that I don't."
"Most witches don't believe in gods. They know that the gods believe in them."
"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't."
"There's no such thing as being too polite. Maybe on another planet there is. But not here, on Earth. Here, being polite is a good thing."
"The truth may be out there, but the lie is inside your head."
"Things just happen one after another. They don't care who knows."
"It was so quiet, one of those moments that get louder and louder until they sound like thunder."
"They didn't want it to be true, but sometimes things are."
"Human beings mostly aren't speciesist. They wouldn't intentionally favour one species over another. But they will favour humans if the need arises."
"Progress just means bad things happen faster."
"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."
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