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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

  • #3
    Terry Pratchett
    “If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #6
    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
    Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”
    Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

  • #11
    Terry Pratchett
    “Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”
    Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #12
    Terry Pratchett
    “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

    Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

    But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

    This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
    Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

  • #13
    Terry Pratchett
    “Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #14
    Terry Pratchett
    “The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”
    Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

  • #15
    Terry Pratchett
    “Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
    Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

  • #20
    Terry Pratchett
    “Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them”
    Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

  • #22
    Terry Pratchett
    “I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.”
    Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

  • #24
    Terry Pratchett
    “Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.”
    Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

  • #26
    Terry Pratchett
    “Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #27
    Terry Pratchett
    “Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.”
    Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times: The Play

  • #28
    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.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #29
    Terry Pratchett
    “Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

  • #30
    Terry Pratchett
    “It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic



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