“You don't have to chase around after creatures, Pismire had said.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The street was full of animals, milling around uncertainly. When animals are in a state of uncertainty they get nervous, and the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“After all, my young Dodger, what exactly are you? A stalwart young man, plucky and brave and apparently without fear? Or, possibly,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Night, forever. But within it, a city, shadowy and only real in certain ways. The entity cowered in its alley, where the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“They don’t go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“‘Yes, but humans are more important than animals,’ said Brutha. ‘This is a point of view often expressed by humans,’ said Om.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realised that the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Now consider the tortoise and the eagle. The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a phrase "neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring." This thing was all of them, plus some other bits… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You don't have to chase around after creatures, Pismire had said. You watch them for long enough, and then you'll find the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Where’s…My…Cow?” They backed away. “Is that my cow?” the creature demanded, stepping forward unsteadily. It shook its head sadly.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
