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Terry Pratchett Quotes
«I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
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«For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«You stay here. I'll whistle if it's safe to follow me.What will you do if it isn't safe?Scream.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it was something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep, and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«It became apparent that one reason why the Ice Giants were known as the Ice Giants was because they were, well, giants. The other was that they were made of ice.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«Cats are nasty cruel bastards but that's because they are cats. As far as we know, they have no grasp of the concept of not being nasty cruel bastards. Humans, on the other hand, do.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«The wind howled. Lightning stabbed at the earth erratically, like an inefficient assassin. Thunder rolled back and forth across the dark, rain-lashed hills. The night was as black as the inside of a cat. It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which Gods moved men as though they were pawns on the chessboard of fate. In the middle of this elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel?s eye. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an archaic voice shrieked: ?When shall we three meet again?!!? There was a pause.Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: ?Well I can do next Tuesday.?»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«It was already growling, and the growl was a low, rumbling snarl of spring-coiled menace, the sort of growl that starts in the back of one throat and ends up in someone else's.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)