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Course Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean…
- But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise…
- Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned,…
- Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had…
- Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of…
- The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
- Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I…
- I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it…
- Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have…
- Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" He said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah.…
- This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And…
- I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would…
- Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst…
- Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.
- The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to…
- There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom.…
- Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant about the sound…
- She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a…
- It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is…
- Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction…
More Course Quotes
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- For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take… — Mary Kay Ash
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use,… — Rowan Atkinson
- You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood