“They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“Don't look back!"
"Why not?"
"Because I just did! Run faster!”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day."
For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, "You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!" but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for "It's very kind of you to say so.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!
No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“That’s what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there’s food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated, and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so that we don’t have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don’t fit the way we want the world to be.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“When much is taken, something is returned.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“It takes an unusual man to make up a hymn in a hurry, but such a man was Captain Roberts. He knew every hymn in The Antique and Contemporary Hymn Book, and sang his way through them loudly and joyously when he was on watch, which had been one of the reasons for the mutiny.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“Science is not interested in what stands to reason.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“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 noise which possibly meant "Anything you say, boss!”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“Captain Roberts went to Heaven, which wasn't everything that he'd expected, and as the receding water gently marooned the wreck of the Sweet Judy on the forest floor, only one soul was left alive. Or possibly two, if you like parrots.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“The Universe isn’t just a light show, they keep it running during the day too.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“She felt better for all that. A good shouting at somebody always makes you feel better and in control, especially if you aren't.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
“[...]And his head is on fire with new things[...]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Nation
Terry Pratchett
Born place: in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom
Born date April 28, 1948
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“the Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books, a list that came to include almost every significant work of post-medieval Western philosophy.”
― David Hume, quote from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Everything and everybody that's busted can be fixed. That's what I think.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, quote from Girl in Pieces
“The engineers of human souls'. There were two main problems. The first was that many people did not want their souls to be egineered, thank you very much. They were content with their souls being left as they were when they had come into this world; and when you tried to lead them, they resisted. Come to this free open-air concert, comrade. Oh, we really think you should attend. Yes, of course, it is voluntary, but it might be a mistake if you didn't show your face...
And the second problem with engineering human souls was more basic. It was this: who engineers the engineers?”
― Julian Barnes, quote from The Noise of Time
“I took several deep gulps of air, which filled my lungs, and it was as if each pore on my skin had absorbed some of his musk.”
― Sharlyn G. Branson, quote from Limits of Destiny
“Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.”
― John Green, quote from Let it Snow
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