Terry Prachett Quotes

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Prachett

Thinking, Inside, Outside

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
Terry Prachett

Trust, Last, Until

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Prachett

Life, Fire, Night

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
Terry Prachett

Home, Starting, Round

Freedom without limits is just a word.
Terry Prachett

Freedom, Word, Limits

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
Terry Prachett

Care, Wrong, Universe

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
Terry Prachett

Sympathy, University, Finish

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
Terry Prachett

Before, Pen, Waited

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.
Terry Prachett

Mean, Pay, Couple

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.
Terry Prachett

Money, Fun, Why

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
Terry Prachett

Wrong, Happens, Fail

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
Terry Prachett

Best, Motto, Rather

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
Terry Prachett

Life, Fast, Traffic

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.
Terry Prachett

Process, Teachers, Object

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
Terry Prachett

Time, Nothing, Wrong

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.
Terry Prachett

Good, Someone, Walk

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
Terry Prachett

Best, Important, Trying

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
Terry Prachett

Mind, Hard, Words

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
Terry Prachett

Experience, Hell, While

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Terry Prachett

Good, Death, Evil

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
Terry Prachett

Together, Remember, Movie

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Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: April 28, 1948

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