What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when… — 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
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn’t mad because, if he was mad, that left no word… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
