Interesting Times Quotes

“He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn’t a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

“Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Cohen looked at the forest of lances and pennants. Hundreds of thousands of men looked like quite a lot of men when you saw them close to.

"I suppose," he said, slowly, "that none of you has got some amazing plan you've been keeping quiet about?"

"We thought you had one," said Truckle.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

“Besides…where Rincewind went’ – he lowered his voice – ‘trouble followed behind.’
Ridcully noticed that the wizards drew a little closer together.
‘Sounds all right to me,’ he said. ‘Best place for trouble, behind.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I feel like a million dollars don't you? ... Good, Lets go get some.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

“When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878”
― Margaret Brownley, A Vision of Lucy

“We are living history," I told my mother breathlessly one night after the radio had been turned off and we sat in complete silence.
"I could do with a little less history, thank you," she replied crisply and returned to mending some socks.”
― Marthe Cohn, Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany

“I thought this life of thoughtful liberalism was my birthright, too. Before I understood that my generation was to be born in interesting times.”
― Maureen F. McHugh

“The path of the ambitious man was a nightingale floor. One wrong step and it would sing out.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times