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Trying Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of…
- Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.
- I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.
- The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
- I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity,…
- I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which…
- I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for…
- Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
- You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we…
- ...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main…
- I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to…
- I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o'…
- Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a…
- Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it…
- But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite…
- Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
- Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.
- Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
- She folded her arms and then shouted, "Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats!" "Oh, waily, waily, it's the foldin'…
- If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.
More Trying Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- Whoever is trying to bring you down is already beneath you. — Nishan Panwar
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- 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