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Thought Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was…
- Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest…
- That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that…
- In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought…
- Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape.…
- Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
- And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is…
- Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it…
- I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional…
- 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…
- Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no…
- 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…
- The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a…
- Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There…
- It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?
- I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.
- The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.
- I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS…
- They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.
- He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ…
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour