But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.
But I don't in reincarnation! he protested.SQUEAK.And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in .
Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is sa...
Before you can kill the monster you have to say its name.
Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmar...
Are you a hero, actually?Um, no. Not as such. Not at all, really. Even less than that, in fact.
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, The mountain is, and is not. They would think, The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.
Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you know how easy it is.
And then you rushed off afterward because of that business with the barber in Gleam Street. Sweeney Jones, said Vimes. Well, he was killing people, Sybil. The best you could say is that he didn’t mean...
And the nice thing about a stake through the heart was that it also worked on non-vampires.
And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.
And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say we’re the good guys and do bad-guy things.
And I went on reading; and, since if you read enough books you overflow, I eventually became a writer.
An' writin' even goes on sayin' a man's wurds after he's ! Ye cannae tell me that's right!
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a bet...