Quote by Terry Pratchett Download Open image ““An upturned tortoise is the ninth most pathetic thing in the entire multiverse.”” — Terry Pratchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I suppose I do not on the whole greatly admire the 'Tortoises' of this world. While one may appreciate their plodding steadiness and ability… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Nothing got more serious than allowing a tortoise to crawl across your kitchen floor.” — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At teh end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share
“I had no time to make a world of my own: I had to stay fixed like Atlas, my feet on the elephant's back… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Tortoises are incredible creatures," Dad says earnestly. "What they lack in elegance and beauty they more than make up for in the ability to… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“Bees buzzed in the bean blossoms. And the sun beat down on the upturned shell of Om. There is also a hell for tortoises.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I knew then that when we had crested that final tortuos pass in the rocks and dropped down into this valley, we had crossed… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“Mundane uproar made things worse, Where self-awareness couldn't be thrust, Dived deep into a jar of the arduous universe, Unintendedly flew high to another… — Hareem Ch Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
