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Years Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort…
- Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals…
- Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway…
- I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord…
- In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new…
- My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who…
- Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is…
- I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author…
- Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of…
- A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no…
- Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the…
- This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And…
- They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking…
- That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your…
- Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit,…
- Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural…
- The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend…
- but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for…
- Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely…
- The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some…
- THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR…
- Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — 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
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz