Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything.
Terry PratchettTags: humor observation
All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
Terry PratchettTags: humor gender dwarfs dwarves
The mountains of madness have many little plateaux of sanity.
Terry PratchettA screaming vampire is always the centre of attention.
Terry PratchettAnd we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.
Terry PratchettTags: humor
Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.
Terry PratchettIt was destined to be the most impressive kiss in the history of foreplay. The kiss lasted more than fifteen years. Not even frogs can manage that.
Terry PratchettKnowledge equals power...
The string was important. After a while the Librarian stopped. He concentrated all his powers of librarianship.
Power equals energy...
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.
Energy equals matter...
He swung into an avenue of shelving that was apparently a few feet long and walked along it briskly for half an hour.
Matter equals mass.
And mass distorts space. It distorts it into polyfractal L-space.
So, while the Dewey system has its fine points, when you're setting out to look something up in the multidimensional folds of L-space what you really need is a ball of string.
Tags: humourosly-inspirational
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry PratchettTags: science big-bang-theory
The worst part, the worst part, was that Lord de Worde was never wrong. It was not a position he understood in relation to his personal geography. People who took an opposing view were insane, or dangerous, or possibly even not really people. You couldn't have an argument with Lord de Worde. Not a proper argument. An argument, from arguer, meant to debate and discuss and persuade by reason. What you could have with William's father was a flaming row.
Terry PratchettTags: politics argument discussion arguing
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