Ankh-morpork Quote by Terry Pratchett

“A small crowd was collecting. A small crowd collected very easily in Ankh-Morpork. As a city, it had some of the most accomplished spectators…

— Terry Pratchett

“In Ankh-Morpork even the shit have a street to itself," said Detritus, awe and wonder in his voice. "Truly, this a land of opportunity.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Standing around watching people was, of course, Ankh-Morpork’s leading industry. The place was a net exporter of penetrating stares.”

— Terry Pratchett

“A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.”

— Terry Pratchett

“By now the whole of downtown Morpork was alight, and the richer and worthier citizens of Ankh on the far bank were bravely responding…

— Terry Pratchett

“Now pull back briefly from the dripping streets of Ankh-Morpork, pan across the morning mists of the Disc, and focus in again on a…

— Terry Pratchett

“For the next thirteen-plus hours, I stared out the window at the passing towns and countryside. All those lives. All those untold stories and…

— Kate Klise

“On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.”

— Patrick Ness

“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…

— Sheridan Hay

“Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside.”

— V.S. Naipaul

“There was a crash. Ceiling panels rained down, lights exploding. They had run from the building, had run through the courtyard, and there were…

— Hugh Howey