Quotes - Raine Rucker (raine_rucker) (Portland, OR) Showing 1-30 of 1,043

#1

“Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: librarian, monkey, music

6 likes

#2

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

13890 likes

#3

“He couldn't remember having been seventeen; it was something that must have happened to him while he was busy. But it made him feel like he imagined it felt like when you were seventeen, which was like having a permanent red-hot vest on under your skin.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: humor, teenage-angst

6 likes

#4

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley

6044 likes

#5

“But this didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: magic, music

47 likes

#6

“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

tags: family

3266 likes

#7

“That's sarcasm! You can't talk to me like that! You're just a servant!"

"That's right. And so are you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: humor

6 likes

#8

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

28805 likes

#9

“Decided to put aside ethnic differences in the cause of making more money.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: economics-philosophy, humor

8 likes

#10

“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

tags: humor, proverb

12934 likes

#11

“Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: religion

44 likes

#12

“All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: conscience, guilt, plagiarism

1217 likes

#13

“It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: rain, weather

25 likes

#14

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis

21127 likes

#15

“I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

tags: beer

74 likes

#16

“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

tags: death, mystery, wish

82 likes

#17

“As far as he could see, the drawings were simply alive. They might be colored earth on rock, but they were as alive as the kangaroo that'd just hopped away.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

tags: art

3 likes

#18

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6642 likes

#19

“But he's the king!”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

12 likes

#20

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

3182 likes

#21

“To be frank, I find religion rather offensive.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

tags: religion

13 likes

#22

“Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

53 likes

#23

“To tell you the truth, I'm something of an atheist.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

tags: religion

6 likes

#24

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life

21175 likes

#25

“Now look," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

tags: libraries, library

25 likes

#26

“Avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

tags: angela

264 likes

#27

“I'm quite sure primitive people have no difficulties surviving in a place like this, and think of all the things we have that our rude forefathers lacked.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

3 likes

#28