Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this:… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into… — 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
Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff… — 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
Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations. — 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
That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal… — 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
