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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 24fa154 | salute the new sunset | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| e9f8e74 | a communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 1e7b562 | more diamonds and pearls of electricity | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| eb36b2e | Anger falling asleep at the heart | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 6e750be | The electric network selling itself: "The medium is the message" | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 48854c2 | America why are your libraries full of tears? | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 27f2f95 | Each night Father fills me with dread When he sits on the foot of my bed; I'd not mind that he speaks In gibbers and squeaks, But for seventeen years he's been dead. | Edward Gorey | ||
| afdbeb1 | Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 120105b | a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue... | words | Terry Pratchett | |
| c82dec9 | But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms. | pratchett terry-pratchett the-truth william-de-worde | Terry Pratchett | |
| 766e7b6 | Miss Dearheart gave him a very brief look, and shook her head. There was movement under the table, a small fleshy kind of noise and the drunk suddenly bent forward, colour draining from his face. Probably only he and Moist heard Miss Dearheart purr: 'What is sticking in your foot is a Mitzy "Pretty Lucretia" four-inch heel, the most dangerous footwear in the world. Considered as pounds per square inch, it's like being trodden on by a very p.. | drunkenness feminism high-heels humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1d70fe6 | Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fbd9a44 | She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head. | humor humorous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3c10892 | Gods?" said Xeno. "We don't bother with gods. Huh. Relics of an outmoded belief system, gods." There was a rumble of thunder from the clear evening sky. "Except for Blind Io the Thunder God," Xeno went on, his tone hardly changing." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f9d2552 | Against one perfect moment, the centuries beat in vain. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c44282c | Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3d5337b | Vimes shook some lather off the blade. "Hah! I bet they have. Tell me, Willikins, did you fight much when you were a kid? Were you in a gang or anything?" "I was privileged to belong to the Shamlegger Street Rude Boys, sir," said the butler. "Really?" said Vimes, genuinely impressed. "They were pretty tough nuts, as I recall." "Thank you, sir," said Willikins smoothly. "I pride myself I used to give somewhat more than I got if we needed to .. | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7f81539 | I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble! | humour last-stand | Terry Pratchett | |
| b3f68e2 | A month went by quickly. It didn't want to hang around. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 31126aa | Hah!" said Granny Weatherwax. "I should just say it is a folk song! I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think you're listenin' to a nice song about...cuckoos and fiddlers and nightingales and whatnot, and then it turns out to be about...something else entirely," she added darkly." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5d3a6f0 | Upstairs, in what had been until then the cash office, Young Sam slept peacefully in a makeshift bed. One day, Vimes hoped, he would be able to tell him that on one special night he'd been guarded by four troll watchmen. They'd been off duty but volunteered to come in for this, and were just for some dwarfs to try anything. Sam hoped the boy would be impressed; the most other kids could hope for was angels. | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2f67789 | they were in every colour sweets can be, such as Not-Really-Raspberry Red, Fake-Lemon Yellow, Curiously-Chemical Orange, Some-Kind-of-Acidy Green and Who-Knows-What Blue. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 050ce62 | Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry you, Mr Lipspick. Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha!' Ha ha,' agreed Moist. Ha hah hah!,' said Hubert. 'Hahahahahaha!! Ahahahahahahhhhh!!!!!-' Bent slapped him on the back. Hubert coughed. Sorry.. | humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| d1e6ebc | Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place. | philosophy work | Terry Pratchett | |
| bd0f2e6 | Jaime had never realised that trees made a sound when they grew, and no-one else had realised it either, because the sound is made over hundreds of years in waves of twenty-four hours from peak to peak. Speed it up, and the sound a tree makes is . | trees unknown-phenomena | Terry Pratchett | |
| 384d85a | I nearly committed a terrible sin," said Brutha. "I nearly ate fruit on a fruitless day." "That's a terrible thing, a terrible thing," said Om. "Now cut the melon." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d332183 | She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently been able to keep this a secret from people. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 351ca7d | Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 41a3bb4 | I SEE THE GIRL WRITES IN GREEN CRAYON ON PINK PAPER WITH A MOUSE IN THE CORNER. THE MOUSE IS WEARING A DRESS. 'I ought to point out that she decided to do that so the Hogfather would think she was sweet,' said Susan. 'Including the deliberate bad spelling. But look, why are you ...' SHE SAYS SHE IS FIVE YEARS OLD. 'In years, yes. In cynicism, she's about thirty-five. Why are you doing the...' BUT SHE BELIEVES IN THE HOGFATHER? 'She'd believ.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fd470a4 | Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you. | marriage | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8ea5580 | I THINK NOT. I WASN'T CUT OUT TO BE A FATHER, AND CERTAINLY NOT A GRANDAD. I HAVEN'T GOT THE RIGHT KIND OF KNEES. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 16593f0 | I shall fear not. According to the Testament of Mezerek, the fisherman Nonpo spent four days in the belly of a giant fish," said Constable Visit. The thunder seemed particularly loud in the silence. "Washpot, are we talking miracles here?" said Reg eventually. "Or just a very slow digestive process?" | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| b46ef7c | As for me, some days I believe in God, and some days I do not." Then Dodger said, "Is that allowed?" Solomon pushed the door open and then fussily began locking it up again behind him. "Dodger, you fail to understand the unique arrangements between Jewish people and God." | god judaism | Terry Pratchett | |
| 090eea5 | It's a strange thing about determined seekers-after-wisdom that, no matter where they happen to be, they'll always seek that wisdom which is a long way off. Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fe43972 | Under the table, Greebo sat and washed himself. Occasionally he burped. Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave and the crypt, but never managed it from the cat. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5e70e48 | The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5680fe0 | Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something . In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2129844 | It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking under their feet. That is because they've got the time-span all wrong. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high.. | humor perspective time | Terry Pratchett | |
| ef9c388 | Mr Vimes," said Mrs Winkings, "ve cannot help but notice that you still haf not employed any of our members in the Vatch..." Say 'Watch', why don't you? Vimes thought. I know you can. Let the twenty-third letter of the alphabet enter your life." | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7b0d78c | This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the vibrations of all the other workings of that story that have ever been. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e2fde12 | My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman," it said. "I'll be the judge of that," warned Granny, and added, "Don't call me woman." "Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz," said the demon smugly." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 074085a | I THINK... I THINK I COULD BE FRIENDS WITH THE GREEN BOTTLE. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 206d1c1 | He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5a4e6bc | Ye gods, it was so much better when there were just four of us up against that bloody great dragon, Vimes thought as they walked on. Of course, we nearly got burned alive a few times, but at least it wasn't complicated. It was a damned great dragon. You could see it coming. It didn't get political on you. | Terry Pratchett |