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Old Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might…
- A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse…
- If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read…
- And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot…
- It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart.…
- My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who…
- Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well…
- I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.
- Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of…
- The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski…
- 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…
- 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…
- Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead
- ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
- This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And…
- Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a…
- That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your…
- It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of…
- Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
- 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 truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really…
- Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.
- And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?
- Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago…
- As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.
More Old Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe