Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 27)

“Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.”

“Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.”

“You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.”

“Million-to-one chances… crop up nine times out of ten.”

“We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.'

Precisely,' said a passing bush.”

“Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.”

“Crowley (An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards)”

“Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.”

“The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.”

“It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.”

“DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.”

“In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?”

“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”

“Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.”

“It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed', although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.”

“Chances are where you find them”

“Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.”

“The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.”

“Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”