Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! Terry Pratchett More Quotes by Terry Pratchett More Quotes From Terry Pratchett Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero. Terry Pratchett thieves government hero Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right. Terry Pratchett baby children thinking They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time. Terry Pratchett differences people needs I ushered souls into the next world. I was the grave of all hope. I was the ultimate reality. I was the assassin against whom no lock would hold. - "Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?" Terry Pratchett skills taken reality Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Terry Pratchett voice ignorance half People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. Terry Pratchett sky bird people Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals Terry Pratchett tough hero people For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own. Terry Pratchett reading talking book The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. Terry Pratchett hammers communication reason Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything. Terry Pratchett why-not believe people It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny. Terry Pratchett being-bad many-friends enough This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here. Terry Pratchett lovely party wish Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery. Terry Pratchett misery meaning-of-life life-is 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 perfect goodbye world Occasionally he would very nearly swear. Terry Pratchett swear This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up. Terry Pratchett clever home men Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses. Terry Pratchett excuse-you couple son It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long. Terry Pratchett mad long hands And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst! Terry Pratchett discworld small-gods chosen-one The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well. Terry Pratchett nails artist special
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