Mario González > Mario's Quotes

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

“Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Can't we do anything about it?"
- "No!"
- "Then I can't see the sense in panicking", said Twoflower calmly”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“The truly smart, having discovered they are cleverer than the people around them, soon learn that the smartest thing of all for them to do is to prevent said people from ever finding this out.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Cosmos

“Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

“Wizards had always known that the act of observation changed the thing that was observed, and sometimes forgot that it also changed the observer too.”
― Terry Pratchett

“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Like many people of limited intellectual scope, Snouty did take what he could do very seriously.”
― Terry Pratchett

“The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.”
― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic

“It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities. You worked away, patiently asking questions and looking hard at things. You walked and talked, and in your heart you just hoped like hell that some bugger's nerve'd crack and he'd give himself up.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds!”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too.

You just had to decide who your friends really were.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who’d never see it in their whole life nevertheless spent that life working for it. Thousands and thousands of green acres were part of it, forests were part of it. It drew in and consumed…
…and gave back the dung from its pens, and the soot from its chimneys, and steel, and saucepans, and all the tools by which its food was made. And also clothes, and fashions, and ideas, and interesting vices, songs, and knowledge, and something which, if looked at in the right light, was called civilization. That was what civilization meant. It meant the city.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“...with the grin of one who mistakenly thinks he's a wit when he's only half a one.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“Creen que si siguen a bordo todo se arreglará. No se atreven a pensar que todo es un sueño. Solo hay que usar palabras grandilocuentes para decirles que tendrán mermelada mañana y les das esperanza. Pero nunca ganarán. Una parte de ellos lo sabe, pero ninguna de las otras partes presta atención. La casa siempre gana.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“La única manera de que algo se presente cuando lo necesitas es necesitar que se presente.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“Pero el truco era añadirle destellos. Contabas a la gente lo que tenías intención de hacer y la gente creía que eras capaz de hacerlo. Aquel viaje a caballo podría haberlo realizado cualquiera. Nadie lo había hecho. Todos seguían esperando a que se repararan los clacs.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“nunca se sabe hasta que uno lo intenta.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“-En ese caso -dijo Húmedo von Mustachen-, encomiendo mi alma al dios que pueda encontrarla.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“no había ninguna ley que lo prohibiera porque nadie sabía que el crimen existía,”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam.
"Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?"
"'cos they torture people.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realised that the most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendants not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships or being patronized rigid by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it. So they long ago plumped for a lifestyle that, in return for a certain amount of porterage and being prodded with sticks, allowed them adequate food and grooming and the chance to spit in a human's eye and get away with it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

“Sometimes it’s like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone’s going to get stung and you don’t care.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch