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
That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time) — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A witch didn't do things because they seemed a good idea at the time! That was practically cackling. You had to deal… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Then there was a time I woke up and there was your world coming at me like a custard pie thrown by… — 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
“He said to people: you’re free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him… — 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
“A old man once told me "you live and you learn". We'll I've learnt that the blade sword is infinite, I've also… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical… — 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
