His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That’s why we all hate ’em, he thought. Those expressionless eyes watch us, those big faces turn to follow us, and doesn’t… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The sign, which says: "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door!" - Of course, I've read it. Why do you think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly… — 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
Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a… — 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