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Place Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’
- Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.
- 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…
- When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't…
- 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…
- Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and…
- 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…
- Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
- Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent…
- Anyway, lots of warrior tribes think that when they die, they go to a heavenly land somewhere," said the toad. "You know, where they can…
- 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…
- That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does…
- Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered…
- Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
- All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be…
- 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…
More Place Quotes
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden