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Facts Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort…
- At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
- You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.
- Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of…
- In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the…
- She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she…
- After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang.…
- Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.
- People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made…
- Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.
- It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
- I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which…
- I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use…
- Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really…
- 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…
- They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the…
- There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely…
- At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion…
- A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds…
- It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the…
- People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
- WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't…
- At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we…
- Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts,…
- It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden