Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe.
Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!”
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money

“Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Some things were better lost than found.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Sometimes you just have to do what you can and try to live with it.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“What would his father do then? Go on, Johnny supposed. People had a way of doing that, just going on, pushing through with no particular drama, no big drumrolls.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“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

“...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“That's one form of magic, of course."
"What, just knowing things?"
"Knowing things that other people don't know.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.”
― Terry Pratchett

“You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

“Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Terry Pratchett

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
― Stephen King

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
― Stephen King