Quote

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Terry Pratchett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Terence David John Terry Pratchett
Terence David John Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett
History
Art
Without
Enough
Granny
World
Inventing
Weren
Full
Actors

More quotes by Terry Pratchett

Image
People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? What duck? AH. SORRY.
Terry Pratchett
Image
It's not lying when you do it to officers!
Terry Pratchett
Image
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
Terry Pratchett
Image
His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
Terry Pratchett
Image
This book was written using 100% recycled words.
Terry Pratchett
Image
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
Terry Pratchett
Image
There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.
Terry Pratchett
Image
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, The mountain is, and is not. They would think, The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.
Terry Pratchett
Image
When in doubt, choose to live.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart
Terry Pratchett
Image
Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.
Terry Pratchett
Image
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
Terry Pratchett