Discworld Quote by Terry Pratchett

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were…

— Terry Pratchett

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women…

— Terry Pratchett

“And thus the Great Organ of Unseen University was the only one in the world where you could play an entire symphony scored for…

— Terry Pratchett

“The senior wizards of Unseen University stood and looked at the door. There was no doubt that whoever had shut it wanted it to…

— Terry Pratchett

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the…

— David Eddings

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

— Nicole Krauss

“He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed music, did…

— Ian Rankin

I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done…

— Marty Nemko

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“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

Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.

— Terry Pratchett