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Words Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not…
- The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words…
- Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'
- I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are…
- In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down…
- Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without…
- Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves…
- Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how…
- In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
- They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow…
- This book was written using 100% recycled words.
- Words are the litmus paper of the mind.
- If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.
- People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave…
- Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
- Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and…
- No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.
- The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were…
- I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.
- It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the…
- Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way…
More Words Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila