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First Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither…
- They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
- Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous.…
- Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there…
- I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
- In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new…
- Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in…
- One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested…
- I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want…
- One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had…
- Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than…
- You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of…
- That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he…
- The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,…
- Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of…
- You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?" "Only a man would think of that. It's our job," said Moist.…
- Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.
- They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking…
- Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other…
- Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle