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Turns Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said,…
- If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
- Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
- The dwarfs can turn lead into gold... It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs. -Can we? -Damned if I know. I can't. -Yeah, but…
- …We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, it’s…
- Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and…
- Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows…
- There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so…
- For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy…
More Turns Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a… — Douglas Adams
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez