Terry Pratchett: Idézetek angolul (oldal 14)

“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”

“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”

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

“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.”

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

“Chances are where you find them”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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