Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She never sent the castle to sleep”, said Granny, “that’s just an old wife’s tale. She just stirred up time a little.… — 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
“I don’t have much time, sir, but fortunately I have a lot of gin.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There was something else I was trying to say,’ said Rincewind, letting go of the hand. He looked blank for a moment,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And that had led to all the trouble with How to Dynamically Manage People for Dynamic Results in a Caring Empowering Way… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The past needs to be remembered. If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“At times like this it's traditional that a hero comes forth," said the President of the Guild of Assassins. "A dragon slayer.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You see, evil alwys contains the seeds of its own destruction' said the angel said, 'It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were times when the world did not need policemen, because what it really did need was for somebody who knew what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles… — 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
“...for the first time Rincewind saw the troll. It wasn’t half so bad as he had imagined. Umm, said his imagination after… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There had been times, over the past millenium, when he'd felt like sending a message back Below saying, Look, we may as… — 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
