Favorite Quotes

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 Pratchett

The fox knows many things, but
the hedgehog knows one big thing.
- Archilochus

"Now this is not the end. It
is not even the beginning of
the end. But it is, perhaps,
the end of the beginning."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Science is a way of talking about the universe in
words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a
method of talking to the universe in words that it
cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible."
- The Phantom Stranger, BOOKS OF MAGIC #1

Insanity is often the logic of
an accurate mind over-tasked.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Khan: Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us, "Revenge
is a dish that is best served cold"? It is very cold...in space.
- Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan

Favorite Quotes

Grown men may learn from very little children,
for the hearts of little children are pure,
and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show
to them many things which older people miss.
- Nicholas Black Elk [Hehaka Sapa]

Books, the children of the brain.
- "A Tale of a Tub, Sec. 1" (1704), Jonathan Swift

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
- "Henry V" by William Shakespeare

Abu: Does the world have a roof?
Genie: Of course! Supported by seven pillars, and
the seven pillars are set on the shoulders of a genie
whose strength is beyond thought, and the genie
stands on an eagle, and the eagle on a bull, and the
bull on a fish, and the fish swims in the sea of eternity.
- Thief of Bagdad

MacGyver: The great thing about a map: it gets you
in and out of places in a lot of different ways.
- MacGyver (Episode: The Gauntlet)

Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

Favorite Quotes

Knowledge = Power = Energy = Matter = Mass.
A library is just a genteel black hole that can read
- Mort by Terry Pratchett

"The most dangerous creature in all the world is not a woman
scorned, rather an experienced Dungeon Master rallied to a cause."
- Annonymouse...

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of
darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"The little things are infinitely the most important."
- Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity

Human subtlety...will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than
does nature, because in her inventions nothing
is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"In my profession all sorts of odd knowledge comes
useful, and this room of yours is a storehouse of it."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

Quotaria

Dreams come true; without that possibility,
nature would not incite us to have them.
- John Updike

Washington is the only place where
sound travels faster than light.
- CVR Thompson

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood,
because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
- Carrie Fisher

The past was erased, the erasure
was forgotten, the lie became truth.
- George Orwell [1984]

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often
turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

You can go a long way with a
smile. You can go a lot farther
with a smile and a gun.
- Al Capone

Quotes

"Suburbia is where the developer
bulldozes out the trees, then
names the streets after them."
- Bill Vaughan

"Man never made any material as
resilient as the human spirit."
- Bern Williams

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

The difference between fiction and reality
is that fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy

Real children don't go hoppity-skip
unless they are on drugs
- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Before you embark on a journey
of revenge, dig two graves.
- Confucius

Quotaria

The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along and
trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett

'And he goes around killing people?' said Mort.
He shook his head. 'THERE'S NO JUSTICE.'
Death sighed. NO, he said, THERE'S JUST ME.
- Mort, Terry Pratchett

Every person has the choice between
Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand
against those who would choose Evil.
- Friedrich Kellner

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't
change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
- Maya Angelou

"Better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought
a fool than to open it an remove all doubt."
- Chinese proverb (? maybe Voltaire instead)

A new idea is delicate.
It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn;
it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the
right person's brow.
- Charles Brower

Quotaria - Terry Pratchett

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

No. Men should die for lies. But the
truth is too precious to die for.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

He says gods like to see an atheist around.
Gives them something to aim at.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it. "CATS," he said eventually. "CATS ARE NICE."
- Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

The truth may be out there, but
the lies are inside your head.
- Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel

Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If
you find yourself in the power of someone who
will use the word "commence" in cold blood,
go somewhere else very quickly. But if they
say "Enter", don't stop to pack.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Quotaria

"There are more
of them than us."
- Herb Caen

"Vampires have their stakes and werewolves have their
silver bullets, but there is nothing man has yet devised
that can kill a government program."
- Bob Krumm

In the last analysis, man may be defined as a parasite on a vegetable.
-- Hans Zinsser Rats, Lice and History

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath
that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family
man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Bad people should have a big scar or an
eye patch so you can recognize them.
- Kitty, That 70’s Show

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where
I'm going, but I'm on my way."
- Carl Sandburg

Quotes - Terry Pratchett

Geography is just physics slowed down,
with a couple of trees stuck in it.
- Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

'Chapter Fifteen, Elementary Necromancy', she read
out loud. 'Lesson One: Correct Use of Shovel…
- Terry Pratchett, Jingo

'We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,'
he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really
powerful magic field must have been generated here,
and we're feeling the after-effects.'
'Precisely,' said a passing bush.
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic

The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the
sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
- Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

THE DEATH OF THE WARRIOR OR THE OLD MAN OR
THE LITTLE CHILD, THIS I UNDERSTAND, AND I
TAKE AWAY THE PAIN AND END THE SUFFERING. I
DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS DEATH-OF-THE-MIND.
- Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

"Coffee was only a way of stealing time that should
by rights belong to your slightly older self."
- Terry Pratchett

Quotes - Terry Pratchett

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
- Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"

A good bookshop is just a genteel
Black Hole that knows how to read.
- Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

Always be wary of any helpful item that
weighs less than its operating manual.
- Terry Pratchett

"A marriage is always made up of two people who are
prepared to swear that only the other one snores."
- Terry Pratchett

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam.
Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and
subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of
understanding of this simple fact.
- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

Have a bit more patience with newbies.
Of course some of them act dumb -- they're
often students, for heaven's sake.
- Terry Pratchett