My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,” it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,” warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My granny died of cancer she was in her early fifties and in her first year of retirement. It's the cruellest thing… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I be thinking sometimes, maybe I'm just too hard on people. Maybe I want too much. But no, I don't. All my… — Claressa Shields Copy Share Image
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where… — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
“I'm not done arguing with you, Mrs.Fletcher. I'm going to convince you yet." "Well I reckon I got ten or twenty more… — Frances O'Roark Dowell Copy Share Image
For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one… — Ben Lloyd-Hughes Copy Share Image
And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“I had hardly ever seen Great Granny Webster at that time, and yet her feelings interested me. She was little more to… — Caroline Blackwood Copy Share Image
Did Lovelace's forces find you? Did Jabor break in?" He spoke slowly through clenched teeth. "I went to get a newspaper" This… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, Granny filled a bushel basket with her do’s and don’ts. She taught me never to start a… — Paul Levine Copy Share Image
I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop.… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“Is that your granny?” Ranger wanted to know. “Yup. She was checking to make sure Moogey was here.” “You’ve got a helluva… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think you've still got to try to be good, day-to-day. You see a granny, you hold the door open for her.… — Sami Zayn Copy Share Image
I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter… — Jo Brand 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
I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It's about enhancing your body and accentuating your good areas. Shapewear isn't the ugly, embarrassing granny undies they used to be -… — Ricki-Lee Coulter Copy Share Image
My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books:… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes… — Curtis Stone Copy Share Image
...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The thing about elves is they've got no... begins with m," Granny snapped her fingers irritably. "Manners?" "Hah! Right, but no" "Muscle?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Mo Sheanmháthair Ar ais arís lá breá Lúnasa Canach geosadáin ar foluain Ar chuile leoithne ghaoithe Do theach ina sceatraigh Na cróite… — Deirdre Brennan Copy Share Image
Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
