Discworld Quote by Terry Pratchett Download Open image ““His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.”” — Terry Pratchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discworld Psychology Reading
“But his study was so dim and close, and it gave off the salty inky smell of mental fidgeting.” — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“My grandpa never read the newspaper. Not because he was particularly optimistic, but because he was illiterate. He taught me to read by watching… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!” — Kelley Lovelace Copy Share Image
“He felt overwelmed when he thought of all the books he hadn't read, all the books he wanted to read, and all the books… — Kristine Grayson Copy Share Image
“Overstimulated. Light, sound, touch, all had been amped up. He closed his eyes to shut out the excess information and tried to get his… — Carol Shay Hornung Copy Share Image
“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from what you… — Chad Harbach 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
“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
“There was a steady drizzle when they left for the tower. Moist drove the cart, with the others sitting on the load behind him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Sacharissa saw a movement. Boddony had pulled his axe out from under the bench. It was a traditional dwarf axe. One side was a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It was the way he wore the place. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Her books on alchemy were marvellous objects, every page a work of the engraver's art, but they nowhere contained instructions like "Be sure to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There was a hell for blasphemers. There was a hell for disputers of rightful authority. There were a number of hells for liars. There… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Vimes shook some lather off the blade. "Hah! I bet they have. Tell me, Willikins, did you fight much when you were a kid?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image