DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS.
Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it.
But this didn't like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.
Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.
Being a witch is a man’s job: that’s why it needs women to do it.
And what would humans be without love?RARE, said Death.
A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to...
That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it s...
Where there is personality, there is discord.
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Yes! I'm ! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I ! And I always have a piece...
Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them. And what you might need them for wa...
Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
When in doubt, choose to live.
We cannae just rush in, ye ken.Point o' order, Big Man. Ye just rush in. We just rush in.Aye, Big Yan, point well made. But ye gotta know ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in . It looks...
We all have our funny little ways. Except me, obviously.
Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, t...
Typical artist,' said Granny. 'He just painted the showy stuff in the front... And what about these cherubs? We're not going to get them too, are we? I don't like to see little babies flying through t...
They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!
There was a wicked ole witch once called Black Aliss. She was an unholy terror. There's never been one worse or more powerful. Until now. Because I could spit in her eye and steal her teeth, see. Beca...