Terry Pratchett: Trending quotes (page 35)

“This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”

“Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.”

“Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.”

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”

“When in doubt, choose to live.”

“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”

“Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."

"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”

“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”

“Progress just means bad things happen faster.”

“All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.”

“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”

“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”

“But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.”

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”

“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”

“There's a door."
"Where does it go?"
"It stays where it is, I think.”

“Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax couldin a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.”