Facts Quotes by Terry Pratchett

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

— Terry Pratchett

Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.

— Terry Pratchett

So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.

— Terry Pratchett

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

— Terry Pratchett

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

— Terry Pratchett

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel…

— Terry Pratchett

Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

— Terry Pratchett

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

— Terry Pratchett

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

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(About sweeping)… What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of…

— Terry Pratchett

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone…

— Terry Pratchett

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am…

— Terry Pratchett

She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet…

— Terry Pratchett

It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall…

— Terry Pratchett

In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil…

— Terry Pratchett

Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even…

— Terry Pratchett

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I…

— Terry Pratchett

It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of…

— Terry Pratchett

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy,…

— Terry Pratchett

There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You…

— Terry Pratchett

Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered…

— Terry Pratchett

In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,…

— Terry Pratchett

Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir.…

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At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having…

— Terry Pratchett

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not…

— Terry Pratchett

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and…

— Terry Pratchett

People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough,…

— Terry Pratchett

A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put…

— Terry Pratchett

After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it…

— Terry Pratchett

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and…

— Terry Pratchett

It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with.…

— Terry Pratchett

“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were…

— Terry Pratchett

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come…

— Terry Pratchett

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But…

— Terry Pratchett

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several…

— Terry Pratchett