Good Omens Terry Pratchett Quotes

#1. It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Love is 'evil' spelled backward
with an i instead of an o.

Avi

#3. There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Terry Pratchett

#4. A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature.

Terry Pratchett

#5. I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Having a baby is the single mos joyous co-experience that two human beings can share, and he wasn't going to miss a second of it.
He got one of the Secret Service men to videotape it for him.

Terry Pratchett

#7. You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you make it right.

Terry Pratchett

#8. To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

Alan Cohen

#9. I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#10. He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

Terry Pratchett

#11. She managed to come up with the kind of predictions that you can only understand after the thing has happened," said Anathema. "Like 'Do Notte Buye Betamacks.' That was a prediction for 1972.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#13. But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

Terry Pratchett

#14. His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

Michel Chossudovsky

#16. One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.

Terry Pratchett

#17. I bet you don't have to be Spanish to be the Spanish Inquisition," said Adam. "I bet it's like Scottish eggs or American hamburgers. It just has to look Spanish. We've just got to make it look Spanish. Then everyone would know it's the Spanish Inquisition.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too.
You just had to decide who your friends really were.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

Terry Pratchett

#20. It'd be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

Neil Gaiman

#22. I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

Chris McCaughan

#23. Because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was The pathway to wisdom lies through excess

Jack Kerouac

#24. Good Omens was written by two people who at the time were not at all well known except by the people who already knew them. They weren't even certain it would sell.

Terry Pratchett

#25. Say what you like. Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

Terry Pratchett

#26. You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?

Terry Pratchett

#27. Childhood itself is a myth for almost all of us. We think we remember what happens to us when we were kids, but we don't.

Stephen King