Quotes from Terry Pratchett

Really cool people?" said Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping.

The press waited. It looked now like a great big beast. Soon he'd throw a lot of words into it. And in a few hours it would be hungry again, as if those words had never happened. You could feed it, but you could never fill it up.

Es una realidad de la vida el hecho de que todos nos encontramos a uno u otro lado de un muro, de modo que la única solución es olvidarse de él o desarrollar unos dedos resistentes.

Here you are. Would you like some pickles?" "Pickles gives me the wind something awful." "In that case—" "Oh, I wasn't saying no," Mistress Weatherwax said, taking two large pickled cucumbers.

In other words, it's the familiar hot sinking feeling experienced by everyone who has let the waves of their own anger throw them far up on the beach of retribution, leaving them, in the poetic language of the everyday, up shit creek.

Let me through. I'm a nosy person.' she said, employing both elbows. It worked, as this sort of approach generally does.

gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold 'Is there a chorus?' Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold.' said Hwel. 'You left out a gold there.

This was the time, when night wasn't quite over but day hadn't quite begun, when thoughts stood out bright and clear and without disguise.

An alternative, favoured by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis.

A word writ doon can hang a man

He was hanged, and then much later they put up a statue to him, which tells you more about people than you might wish to know.

There are now, to the delight of parasitical writers like me, what I might almost call "public domain" plot items. There are dragons, and magic users, and far horizons, and quests, and items of power, and weird cities. There's the kind of scenery that we would have had on earth if only God had had the money.

He could hear his granny speaking. "No one's too poor to buy soap." Of course, many people were. But in Cockbill Street they bought soap just the same. The table might not have any food on it but, by gods, it was well scrubbed. That was Cockbill Street, where what you mainly ate was your pride.

How much experience do you think I've got in these matters? Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.

There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving place, hurtling around the planet at a thousand miles an hour like a dark knike, cutting slices of daily bread off the endless loaf of Time.

His-his-history!' he cried. 'I declare the Stone Age at an end. History will start from tomorrow!

William wondered why he always disliked people who said "no offense meant." Maybe it was because they found it easier to say "no offense meant" than actually to refrain from giving offense.

Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.

It was like rising slowly out of a pink cloud, or a magnificent dream which, try as you might, drains out of your mind as the daylight shuffles in, leaving a terrible sense of loss; nothing, you know instinctively, nothing you're going to experience for the rest of the day is going to be one half as good as that dream.

Right, pass the word along: no one is to look like a sock, understand?

And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say 'Yonder is...zer castle' a volf would be bound to howl mournfully. In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.

It's a monocle, said the captain. It helps me see you, for which I am eternally grateful. I always say that if I had two I'd make a spectacle of myself.

Death grinned. In order to fear, you had to be a me. Don't let anything happen to me. That was the song of fear.

Stars is easy, people is hard.