Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
She folded her arms and then shouted, "Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats!" "Oh, waily, waily,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had… — 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
I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it. — 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
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that… — 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
