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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 99d90c4 | Er, why do you need to work in a dark room, though?" he said. "The imps don't need it, do they?" "Ah, zis is for my experiment," said Otto proudly. "You know zat another term for an iconographer would be 'photographer'? From the old word in Latation, vhich means - " "'To prance around like a pillock ordering everyone about as if you owned the place'", said William. "Ah, you know it!" | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| b5e2ee5 | I'd better say at the start that I don't actually believe in magic any more than I believe in astrology, because I'm a Taurean and we don't go in for all that weirdo occult stuff. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4fa5db2 | Untruthful?" said Ridcully. "Me? I'm as honest as the day is long! Yes, what is it this time?" Ponder had tugged at his robe and now he whispered something in his ear. Ridcully cleared his throat. "I am reminded that this is in fact the shortest day of the year," he said. "However, this does not undermine the point that I just made, although I thank my colleague for his invaluable support and constant readiness to correct minor if not downr.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 164182e | Typical artist,' said Granny. 'He just painted the showy stuff in the front... And what about these cherubs? We're not going to get them too, are we? I don't like to see little babies flying through the air.' 'They turn up in a lot of old paintings,' said Nanny Ogg. 'They put them in to show it's Art and not just naughty pictures of ladies with not many clothes on.' 'Well, they're not fooling ME,' said Granny Weatherwax. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 5700cca | If I'd had to buy you, you wouldn't be worth the price. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9112313 | It was a sound as soft as the first drop of rain on a century of dust. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 899825d | That'll do | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 20c5915 | The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to. | intelligence | Terry Pratchett | |
| 92f3663 | The plain old Sam Vimes had fought back. He got rid of most of the plumes and the stupid tights, and ended up with a dress uniform that at least looked as though its owner was male. But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armourers had made a new, gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid.. | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| de84c61 | Lawn looked down at his patient. "In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?" | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0ed2161 | Decided to put aside ethnic differences in the cause of making more money. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2bbb5d2 | In fact the Guild, he liked to think, practiced the ultimate democracy. You didn't need intelligence, social position, beauty or charm to hire it. You just needed money which, unlike the other stuff, was available to everyone. Except for the poor, of course, but there was no helping some people. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 145e6a8 | To be frank, I thought you were going to marry the princess.' Mort blushed. 'We talked about it,' he said. 'Then we thought, just because you happen to rescue a princess, you shouldn't rush into things.' 'Very wise. Too many young women leap into the arms of the first young man to wake them after a hundred years' sleep, for example. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9e6a620 | This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8d9e003 | He'd forgotten the ancient wisdom: take care, when you are closely observing, that you are not closely observed. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| de73a36 | He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him this fifteen-function imp which did so many other things, although as far as he could see at least ten of its functions consisted of apologizing for its inefficiency in the other five. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 55f8b05 | Bein' a soldier is not hard. If it was, soldiers would not be able to do it. | soldiers | Terry Pratchett | |
| 28b4c5c | A dollar for a human bought a loaf of bread that was eaten in a few bites. The same dollar for Wee Mad Arthur bought the same-sized loaf, but it was food for a week and could then be further hollowed out and used as a bedroom. | feet-of-clay wee-mad-arthur | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7a32651 | What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things". And right now it would happen if you thought there was a thing called a father, and a thing called a mother, and a thing called a daughter, and a thing called a cottage, and told yourself that if you put them all together you had a thing called a happy family." | good humanity morality | Terry Pratchett | |
| c774668 | It dawned on him--very slowly, because it was a completely new sensation--that someone in the world was frightened of him. The complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a kind of natural law. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| aaa163c | He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower. | reign-of-terror shower vetinari | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0febab4 | I'm made up of the memories of my parents and grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, in the color of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is 'me'? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 799e95f | Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection. | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| ae559b1 | But if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed (because of Quantum), it's even more true that it changes the observer. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1f3787a | as self-centered as a tornado, | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 978b1fb | drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat | cynicism democracy drinking | Terry Pratchett | |
| e1d6376 | In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 628a54e | Only Granny Weatherwax really knew Granny Weatherwax. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 74ea54b | I often thought that everyone has their, you know, natural age. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a63f0a2 | You made a choice, you get what you choose. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f583c1b | A unicorn is nothing more than a big horse that comes to a point, anyway. Nothing to get so excited about. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 554e3f4 | But most of all in the last couple of years I have been listening. As a journalist, I learned to listen. It is amazing how much people will tell you if you listen in the right way. Rob, my PA, says that I can listen like a vacuum cleaner. Always beware of somebody who is a really good listener. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f087c4f | You didn't have to know Pilu for long to see that he floated through life like a coconut on the ocean. He always bobbed up. There was some sort of natural spring of cheerfulness that bubbled to the surface. Sadness was like a cloud across the sun, soon past. Sorrow was tucked away somewhere in his head, locked up in a cage with a blanket over it, like the captain's parrot. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9c66b29 | He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8fcea3f | what was once considered impossible is now quite easily achieved. Kings and lords come and go and leave nothing but statues in a desert, while a couple of young men tinkering in a workshop change the way the world works. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1f2be27 | The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it. | dodger glance humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| afecb97 | Royalty pollutes people's minds, boy. honest men start bowing and bobbing just because someone's granddad was a bigger murdering bastard than theirs was. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4e3da68 | There was a sliding noise and a tinkle exactly like the tinkle a spoon makes when it's put back among the other spoons, who have missed it and are anxious to hear its tales of life among the frighteningly pointy people. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3af553b | A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman | onion woman | Terry Pratchett | |
| dc855b1 | No-one likes being told it's their lucky day. That sort of thing does not bode well. When someone tells you it's your lucky day, something bad is about to happen. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0d37682 | I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 782d9df | Demons have existed on the Discworld for at least as long as the gods, who in many ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as that between terrorists and freedom fighters. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1a18d21 | Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir,' said Carrot 'What, in Ankh-Morpork?' 'Yes, sir.' 'We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value | humor innocent-bystander sarcasm | Terry Pratchett | |
| 68293ea | Three very crowded hours went past. They involved quite a lot of phone calls, telexes, and faxes. Twenty-seven people were got out of bed in quick succession and they got another fifty-three out of bed, because if there is one thing a man wants to know when he's woken up in a panic at 4:00 A.M., it's that he's not alone. | Terry Pratchett |