Pratchett Wiki Quotes & Sayings

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. — Judy Blume

One's life is short, but the life of the spirit is long. — Sook Nyul Choi

Everyone she knew was intimidated by him - by his intelligence, by his imposing height and strength, by his ethereal beauty - but she knew him as a man of flesh and earthy desire who loved her beyond comprehension. — Tiffany Reisz

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences]. — Lucrecia Martel

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. — Thomas Carlyle

God Gives Birth To gods! — Chris Oyakhilome

We are all such escape artists, you and I. We don't like to get too serious about things, especially about ourselves. When we are with other people, we are apt to talk about almost anything under the sun except for what really matters to us, except for our own lives, except for what is going on inside our own skins. We pass the time of day. We chatter. We hold each other at bay, keep our distance from each other even when God knows it is precisely each other that we desperately need. — Frederick Buechner

Speak the essence and live by it. — Radhanath Swami

I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on what gets translated, so it's great to see an increase in diversity. — Adrian Tomine

We produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationary. — Charles Dickens

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire. — Bertrand Russell

He'd probably just crawl in the corner and starve. Like a hamster you forgot to feed. — Donna Tartt