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Day Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- 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…
- He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes…
- By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of…
- What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of…
- There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that.…
- I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that…
- The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if…
- They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then…
- An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what…
- What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least…
- One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
- The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange…
- Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said…
- There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in…
- And the new day was a great big fish
- You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one…
- Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.
- I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him…
- Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city…
- The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy…
- Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit,…
- One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.
- And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to…
- The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really…
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- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong