Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home. Terry Pratchett More Quotes by Terry Pratchett More Quotes From Terry Pratchett I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about. Terry Pratchett small-godsphilosophercertain What's money interested in? More money. Terry Pratchett more-money But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly. Terry Pratchett eaglesone-daydoe It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of. Terry Pratchett bootsnumbersdirectors If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word. Terry Pratchett arrowsevilmen When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise Terry Pratchett elephantsdoesky I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers. Terry Pratchett philosopherstupidthinking Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man! Terry Pratchett confrontinglittlesmen No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink. Terry Pratchett sunriserealsky What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up? Terry Pratchett fateknowingblow Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder. Terry Pratchett hardereasy That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men. Terry Pratchett originalitygeniusmen Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green. Terry Pratchett black-and-whiteracismamerica I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football. Terry Pratchett playfootballsoccer One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like 'What's it all about, when you get right down to it?' Terry Pratchett nextsexthinking In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at. Terry Pratchett specialbeautifullove There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns. Terry Pratchett gunlandbelieve The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one. Terry Pratchett datingromancefemale There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom, there's light for nothing but mosses and ferns. But when a giant falls, leaving a little space ... then there's a race - between the trees on either side, who want to spread out, and the seedlings below, who race to grow up. Sometimes, you can make your own space. Terry Pratchett growing-upskyfall Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated. Terry Pratchett paintakenart
