There were a lot of things he could say. Son of a bitch! would have been a good one. Or he could say, Welcome to civilization! He could have said, Laugh this one off! He might have said, Fetch! But he...
There are those who believe knowledge is something that is acquired - a precious ore hacked, as it were, from the grey strata of ignorance.There are those who believe that knowledge can only be recall...
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair...
The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn’t by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much ha...
The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?
The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.
The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself.
The Universe isn’t just a light show, they keep it running during the day too.
The Nac Mac Feegle (also called Pictsies, The Wee Free Men, The Little Men, and Person or Persons Unknown, Believed to be Armed)
The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.
Talent just defines what you do, he said. It doesn’t define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything.
Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers! She shouted.The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: Socks wi'oot feets?
Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.
She’d read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren’t supposed to.
She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder.In the silence of the woods, Polly turned.I can't see her, she said.I am happy for you, said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug.But I di...
Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: s...
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of te...
Science is not interested in what stands to reason.
Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like...
No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.