Quotes from Terry Pratchett

Mister Lipwig, the world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth. It's just a matter of thinking creatively.

Apply logic in places where it wasn't intended to exist.

Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.

The Universe isn't just a light show, they keep it running during the day too.

Science is not interested in what stands to reason.

Well, basically, there are two sorts of opera, said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever.

The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.

I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

Everything is magic when you don't know what it is. Your sliding rule is a magic wand to most people.

I shall fear not. According to the Testament of Mezerek, the fisherman Nonpo spent four days in the belly of a giant fish, said Constable Visit. The thunder seemed particularly loud in the silence. Washpot, are we talking miracles here? said Reg eventually. Or just a very slow digestive process?

In the rain-forests of Brutha's subconscious the butterfly of doubt emerged and flapped an experimental wing, all unaware of what chaos theory has to say about this sort of thing …

Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout 'Attack!' but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.

He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labor.

logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.

The mountains of madness have many little plateaux of sanity.

More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head.

I thought dwarfs loved gold, said Angua. They just say that to get it into bed.

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The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn't the kind of logic you'd use around midday.

In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.

Everybody present laughed nervously, except Lord Vetinari, who just laughed.

It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.

Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. Oograah means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see it, if you can't eat it, it's not worth naming it.