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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc63f4d | Not craftsmen, my lord" he said. "I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6211eb0 | Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days. | history humour women larps reenactment wenches hobbies historical wit | Terry Pratchett | |
| a0dccda | That's No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress,' said Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. 'Ye were one jock short,' he added helpfully. | quote pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1ffdb22 | I never understood that story, anyway," said Nanny. "I mean, if I knew I'd got a heel that would kill me if someone stuck a spear in it, I'd go into battle wearing very heavy boots--" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2e4fd2b | The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement." "Oh." -- | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f346a68 | Ah, I know that," said Tiffany, as the boat rocked on the swell. "Whales aren't dangerous, because they just eat very small things..." "Row like the blazes, lads!" Rob Anybody yelled." | humor tiny whales | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6d0af77 | Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads is a bit tired we ends up earning the money faster'n we can make it, which leads to a bit of what I can only call a conundrum--" "You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it?" said Moist, still pondering how illogical logical thinking can b.. | money currency overtime government | Terry Pratchett | |
| cd92a68 | There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 122ac47 | Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. And because the theater was fiction made flesh, she hated the theater most of all. But that was it--hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 109447c | all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 515b574 | The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 00086fe | Vimes, listening with his mouth open, wondered why the hell it was that dwarfs believed that they had no religion and no priests. Being a dwarf was a religion. People went into the dark for the good of the clan, and heard things, and were changed, and came back to tell... And then, fifty years ago, a dwarf tinkering in Ankh-Morpork had found that if you put a simple fine mesh over your lantern flame it'd burn blue in the presence of the gas.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8ee008b | Not all questions are answered, commander, but fortunately some answers are questioned. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2bd99f6 | Aye, Rob, but we canna help noticin' ye also have tae do the Explainin', too,' said Daft Wullie. There was a general nodding from the crowd. To Feegles, Explaining was a dark art. It was just so HARD. 'Like, when we come back from drinkin', stealin', and fightin', Jeannie gives ye the Pursin' o' the Lips,' Daft Wullie went on. A moan went up from all the Feegles: 'Ooooh, save us from the Pursin' o' the Lips!' 'An' there's the Foldin' o'.. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6da38c4 | There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space. | humour nature space laws | Terry Pratchett | |
| 977014e | Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8a8519f | Well, yes, but it's not about the football." "You're saying that football is not about football?" "It's the sharing," she said. "It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole thing." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e79b7db | Rain don't fall on a witch if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful." "Thankful for what?" said Tiffany. "That I'll get dry later." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7739a79 | The nose is also the only organ that can see backwards in time. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 35afa27 | Sometimes I get nice letters from people who know they're due to meet him (Death) soon, and hope I've got him right. Those are the kind of letters that cause me to stare at the wall for some time. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 723e705 | A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3616e4e | If you invited a hedge wizard to a party, he would spend half the evening talking to your potted plant. And he would spend the other half listening. | humor puns | Terry Pratchett | |
| 08eaf49 | While evidence says that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, they're probably all on first steps. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9231bdd | I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.' 'That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower. 'I know. That's the trouble.' Rincewind sighed again. | humour fantasy life | Terry Pratchett | |
| 06d61eb | Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent. | poverty humor opulent furniture stark | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4938e24 | Science is not interested in what stands to reason. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| aec9795 | No point in imagining anything," said Granny. "Things are bad enough as they are." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 89ec00a | The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them... | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d96da46 | logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| df64206 | Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! | nature religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2e50123 | What good's a god who gives you everything you want? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8a90747 | I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts," said Brutha. "That way, everyone's happy." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 42dedd5 | true freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4781bee | Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ebe2447 | And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers! | women polly | Terry Pratchett | |
| 57a3bfc | A man can learn all of an opponent's weaknesses on that board,' said Gilt. 'Really?' said Vetinari, raising his eyebrows. 'Should not he be trying to learn his own? | self-analysis | Terry Pratchett | |
| e859a64 | rational thoughts made out of insane components. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f2b3cdf | All across the multiverse there are backward tribes* who distrust mirrors and images because, they say, they steal a bit of a person's soul and there's only so much of a person to go around. And the people who wear more clothes say this is just superstition, despite the fact that other people who spend their lives appearing in images of one sort or another seem to develop a thin quality. It's put down to over-work and, tellingly, over-expos.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e67cae5 | He'd missed dogs. Dogs added something that even people didn't, and one of the dogs was sitting by his feet, here in the darkness and the gentle rain. It wasn't bothered much about the rain or what might be out there on the unseen sea, but Mau was a warm body moving about in a sleeping world and might at any moment do something that called for runnung around and barking. Occasionally it looked up at him adoringly and made a slobbery gulping.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1b9a477 | It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time memorizing that would be up to no good purpose. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8338188 | If you take the long view, the universe is just something small and round, like those water filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you shake them. * Although, unless the ineffable plan is a lot more ineffable than it's given credit for, it does not have a giant plastic snowman at the bottom. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 541e31f | Your power is only rumour and lies, she thought. You bore your way into people when they are uncertain and weak and worried and frightened, and they think their enemy is other people when their enemy is, and always will be, you - the master of lies. Outside, you are fearsome; inside, you are nothing but weakness. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f298bb4 | He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 999ae5f | He was up against a mind that regarded truth as a reference point but certainly not as a shackle. | Terry Pratchett |