"Using a metaphor in front of a man……" — Terry Pratchett
"Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it."
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1,149 Quotes by Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett has 1,149 quotes on this site.
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You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
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There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
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Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats…
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Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't,…
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It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they…
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Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube…
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Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison,…
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Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this…
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
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A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed…
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Things have no power that humans don't put there.
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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,…
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
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In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if…
— Juliette Binoche
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Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status:…
— Alain de Botton
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The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing…
— Anthony Bourdain
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It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make…
— Jo Brand
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed…
— Piers Anthony
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
— George Saunders
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Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY…
— Asa Gray
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Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies…
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