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- ... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it…
- I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you…
- He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and…
- The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that…
- They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .
- Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.
- Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of…
- Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
- Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down,…
- Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up…
- Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of…
- Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly…
- The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try…
- And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned,…
- One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is…
- The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
- People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't…
- I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds."…
- Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen…
- Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down.
More Down Quotes
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods… — Rowan Atkinson
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe