Discworld Granny Weatherwax Quotes

#1. Closer ... he's closer. He's going to kiss me. I'm caught between wanting to scream hallelujah and having a heart attack.

Nyrae Dawn

#2. Curiosity is a worthwhile virtue than certainty. While the former leads to grow, the latter muzzles your growth and results in stagnation...

Assegid Habtewold

#3. The end of times?" said Nanny. "Look, Tiff, Esme tol' me to say, if you want to see Esmerelda Weatherwax, then just you look around. She is here. Us witches don't mourn for very long. We are satisfied with happy memories - they're there to be cherished.

Terry Pratchett

#4. But the banging of the door as punctuation caused Tiffany to think and she thought suddenly, I want to do it my way. Not how the other witches think it should be done. I can't be Granny Weatherwax for them. I can only be me, Tiffany Aching.

Terry Pratchett

#5. She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.

Brian Andreas

#6. Well, you know Esme. She wasn't one for that kind of thing - never one to push herself forward*
* She hadn't ever needed to. Granny Weatherwax was like the prow of a ship. Seas parted when she turned up.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.

Vince Lombardi

#8. Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was needed.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Thing to know about the Reaches....It's always trying to kill you. Even the empty places between the stars."
Asher Corsair, Allies and Enemies: Rogues

Amy J. Murphy

#10. Always remember that dreams-your creative visualizations-must come before their physical manifestations.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#11. Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered.
And knew that You had been right. Granny Weatherwax was indeed here. And there. She was, in fact, and always would be, everywhere.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Her worst nightmare and her wettest dream.

Gail McHugh

#13. She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind.

Terry Pratchett

#14. What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply raising questions and being put in jail for that, it did freak them out a little bit.

Adam Braver

#15. We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

Georges Braque

#16. We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

Steve Albini

#17. Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than
bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.

Frans De Waal

#18. The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

Terry Pratchett