25 quotes found
“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
“You don't need none of that," she said. "You need headology.”
“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.”
“Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.”
“I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”
“Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will ...”
“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someones mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”
“Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Lad...”
“Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldnt trust it. Often you couldnt even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something elsecoincidence, maybe, or providence. Y...”
“This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. Thats why everything is exactly the wrong way around.”
“Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and y”
“His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the mixed smells of mothballs, grease, and sweat. There was something here, he tho...”
“The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.”
“A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a...”
“Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mea...”
“Genuine anger was one of the worlds great creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didnt mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a worki...”
“The Fool held his breath. On long nights on the hard flagstones he had dreamed of women like her. Although, if he really thought about it, not much like her; they were better endowed around the che...”
“She never sent the castle to sleep, said Granny, thats just an old wifes tale. She just stirred up time a little. Its not as hard as people think, everyone does it all the time. Its like rubber, is...”
“I hate cats."Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant."I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good ...”
