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Matter Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.
- 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.
- 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…
- My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just…
- No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in…
- 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…
- It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever…
- 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…
- 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…
- But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual…
- The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were…
- Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely…
- Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.
- [Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world…
- Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are…
- Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has…
More Matter Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine