Famous Terry Pratchett Quotes & Sayings

For example, it is said that someone at a party once asked the famous philosopher Ly Tin Weedle "Why are you here?" and the reply took three years. — Terry Pratchett

Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go. — Terry Pratchett

It's not for nothing that advanced mathematics tend to be invented in hot countries. It's because of the morphic resonance of all the camels who have that disdainful expression and famous curled lip as a natural result of an ability to do quadratic equations. — Terry Pratchett

Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynaecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall. — Terry Pratchett

At least two of those present tonight were wearing Granny Weatherwax's famous goose-grease-and-sage chest liniment. — Terry Pratchett

The storm was resting. It didn't want to be, but it was. It had spent a fortnight understudying a famous anticyclone over the Circle Sea, turning up every day, hanging around in the cold front, grateful for a chance to uproot the occasional tree or whirl a farmhouse to any available emerald city of its choice. But the big break in the weather had never come. — Terry Pratchett

I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane. — Terry Pratchett

It's hard to be famous and alive. — Terry Pratchett

The universe is littered with them: hidden villages, windswept little towns under wide skies, isolated cabins on chilly mountains, whose only mark on history is to be the incredibly ordinary place where something extraordinary started to happen. Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall. Mist — Terry Pratchett

His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools
the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans
and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink. — Terry Pratchett

When he was a boy he'd read books about great military campaigns, and visited the museums and looked with patriotic pride at the paintings of famous cavalry charges, last stands and glorious victories. It had come as rather a shock, when he later began to participate in some of these, to find that the painters had unaccountably left out the intestines. Perhaps they just weren't very good at them. — Terry Pratchett

He's probably their battle poet, too."
"You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?"
"No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy ... When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode. — Terry Pratchett

Nobby had survived any number of famous massacres by not being there. — Terry Pratchett

You could become famous just for being, well, famous. — Terry Pratchett

For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? — Terry Pratchett

I swore I'd be the most famous musician in the world." "Dat's dangerous, dat kinda swear," said Cliff. "Oook." "Isn't it what every artist wants?" said Buddy. "In my experience," said Glod, "what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid." "And famous," said Buddy. "Famous I don't know about," said Glod. "It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here is some money, same time tomorrow, okay? — Terry Pratchett