Terry Pratchett Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.”

“What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.”

“Freedom without limits is just a word.”

“Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.”

“I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.”

“I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'”

“The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.”

“I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.”

“There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.”

“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”