There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?" THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. "Is it like this every night?"… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way… — 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
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
If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
- I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS… — 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
Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't. — 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
