Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This is Holy Wood. To pass the time quickly, you just film the clock hands moving fast...” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The thought constructed itself a piece at a time, like an incomplete jigsaw. Think, don't panic.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“...but William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You could trust numbers, except perhaps for pi, but he was working on that in his spare time and it was bound… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - I'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He looked at her defiantly, and she thought: and so one at a time we all become human—human werewolves, human dwarfs, human… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The past needs to be remembered. If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The face you wear in a battlefield should be a solemn one until the time when things are cleaned up and the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Now ... if you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Scuse me, ’scuse me,” said a voice from beside him. He looked down this time at a dirty, half-scorched cat, who grinned… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The gods of the Disc—and here is meant the great consensus gods, who really do exist in Dunmanifestin, their semi-detached Valhalla on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There was an old military saying that Fred Colon used to describe total bewilderment and confusion. An individual in that state, according… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And it came to pass that in that time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: ‘Psst!’” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“D’you see that film where the car travelled in time when it went at eighty-eight miles an hour?” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“...remember that a story does not unwind. It weaves. Events that start in different places and different times all bear down on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She was almost there. She could feel the weight of herself, the ponderousness of her body, the distant memories of the dawn… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“All it takes is for people to believe and I am no longer just an artefact put together by clever engineers. I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
