Quote

Banana daiquiris aren't knock-'em-back-by-the-flagon.

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
Back
Banana
Bananas
Knock
Ems
Aren

More quotes by Terry Pratchett

Image
I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire, said Miss Tick. There may be no survivors.
Terry Pratchett
Image
In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.
Terry Pratchett
Image
If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.
Terry Pratchett
Image
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
Image
It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.
Terry Pratchett
Image
This was the definition of eternity it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett
Image
By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The words are easy - most of them have already been invented.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up over the door (...) and you know what? Its mum come and complained. Its actual mum come right down to the hall next day and complained. Actually complained. That's the respect you get.
Terry Pratchett
Image
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
Terry Pratchett
Image
There's a door, he whispered. Where does it go? It stays where it is, I think, said Rincewind.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.
Terry Pratchett
Image
They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.
Terry Pratchett
Image
Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.
Terry Pratchett
Image
The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
Terry Pratchett
Image
What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
Terry Pratchett
Image
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
Terry Pratchett