The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He could feel certainty draining away. And he’d always been certain.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“[...]And his head is on fire with new things[...]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not fangled at all as against… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If you thought hard enough, he’d always considered, you could work out everything. The wind, for example. It had always puzzled him… — Terry Pratchett 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
“Shaking his head at the way of the world, Fred Colon walked right up to the wall so cruelly - or cruelleah… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what… — 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
“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