Terry Pratchett: Citáty anglicky (strana 4)

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

“If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”

“Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”

“This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”

“… inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”

“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”

“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.”

“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”

“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”

“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”

“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”