Stuart Hodge > Stuart's Quotes

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

“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

“I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."

"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Y’know,’ he said, ‘it’s very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?”
― Terry Pratchett