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"Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."
— Jim Butcher (Storm Front)

tags: demon, paranoia, paranoid
145 people liked it

"I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Shards of Honour)

27 people liked it

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
79 people liked it

"'My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

7 people liked it

"Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you."
— Lois McMaster Bujold

7 people liked it

"Go to your room! Go to your room! I am very, very cross with you! GO TO YOUR ROOM! . . .
I am really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words!"
— Dr. Who from "The Doctor Dances"

22 people liked it

"For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever and ever ... so that a thing may be for ever, a life or a love or a quest, and yet begin again, and be for ever just as before. And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time."
— Susan Cooper (Silver On The Tree)

14 people liked it

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
— Terry Pratchett (Jingo)

tags: humor, proverb
2,029 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
2,985 people liked it

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
— Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)

tags: humor
1,790 people liked it

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
— Terry Pratchett

545 people liked it

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
— Terry Pratchett (The Last Continent)

tags: death, humor, life
868 people liked it

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: mind
331 people liked it

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: cats, humor, life
756 people liked it

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
— Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)

tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading
221 people liked it

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time"
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

156 people liked it

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
— Terry Pratchett

508 people liked it

"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
— Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

214 people liked it

"Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother."
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)

tags: humor
106 people liked it

"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

190 people liked it

"'It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,' he said. 'Have you thought of going into teaching?'"
— Terry Pratchett (Mort)

tags: discworld, humor, humour, teaching
157 people liked it

"And what would humans be without love?"

"Rare," said Death."
— Terry Pratchett (Sourcery)

124 people liked it

"It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you."
— Terry Pratchett (Wintersmith)

39 people liked it

"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon..."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: humour
83 people liked it

"Everywhere I look, I see something holy."
— Terry Pratchett (Carpe Jugulum)

26 people liked it

"Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

93 people liked it

"The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality."
— Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)

101 people liked it

"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
— Terry Pratchett

101 people liked it

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: humor, life
250 people liked it

"Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized."
— Terry Pratchett (Interesting Times)

79 people liked it

"If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you."
— Terry Pratchett

202 people liked it

"She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do.
And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find
herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella."
— Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

55 people liked it

"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."
— Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures)

tags: humor, life, movies
148 people liked it

"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."
— Terry Pratchett (Jingo)

114 people liked it

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

tags: humor
73 people liked it

"In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
-- Schrodinger's Moggy explained"
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: wisdom
51 people liked it

"No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?"
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

tags: absurd, humor, interrogation, police
257 people liked it

"Insanity is catching."
— Terry Pratchett (Making Money)

tags: insanity
87 people liked it

""Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house."
— Terry Pratchett (Witches Abroad)

tags: blessings, witches
34 people liked it

"Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: discworld, luck, nanny-ogg
61 people liked it

"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."
— Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)

tags: cynicism, humor, life
69 people liked it

"We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything."
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

tags: death, gallows, humor, laughing
94 people liked it

"'You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'

'REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX.'"
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

tags: apocalypse, death, hells-angels, humor
23 people liked it

"Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: discworld, witches
13 people liked it

"No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles]."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

15 people liked it

"'Bursar?'
'Yes, Archchancellor?'
'You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you?'
'Me? No, Archchancellor.'
'Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.'"
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: humor, underpants
22 people liked it

"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!'"
— Terry Pratchett (The Color of Magic)

tags: gods, humor, religion, stupidity
114 people liked it

"'I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
'If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?'"
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

tags: humor, interrogation, police, violence
44 people liked it

"It's still magic even if you know how it's done."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

80 people liked it

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
568 people liked it

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