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Letter "T" » Terry Pratchett Quotes
«Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there?s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Evolution,
Humor
| Keywords:
backbone, cases, cosmos, cycles, evolving, fiber, fibers, frustrates, frustrating, go along, intended, millions, mysterious, organic, trial, trial and error, tune
«Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past like a stampede.»
«The vermine is a small black and white relative of the lemming, found in the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather than let go of it.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel»
«Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bull, was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
annoyed, annoying, bull, flag, in front, red flag, red man, unimaginative
«Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living.»
«He did of course sometimes have people horribly tortured to death, but this was considered to be perfectly acceptable behaviour for a civic ruler and generally approved of by the overhelming majority of citizens. [footnote: The overhelming majority of citizens being defined in this case as everyone not currently hanging upside down over a scorpion pit]»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«Always be aware of any helpful item that weighs less than it's operating manual.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
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