Nobby's Quotes

#1. It always amazed Vimes how Nobby got along with practically everyone. It must, he'd decided, have something to do with the common denominator. In the entire world of mathematics there could be no denominator as common as Nobby.

Terry Pratchett

#2. But all this business about kings and lords, it's against basic human dignity. We're all born equal. It makes me sick.'
'Never heard you talk like this before, Frederick,' said Nobby.
'It's Sergeant Colon to you, Nobby.

Terry Pratchett

#3. We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

Kyan Douglas

#4. It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.

Patricia Riggen

#5. Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them

George Best

#6. How many dishonorable discharges have you had?" "Lots," said Nobby, proudly. "But I always puts a poultice on 'em.

Terry Pratchett

#7. We didn't have an indigenous Taliban before 2008. We didn't have a war in Swat before 2008, we didn't have a war in Waziristan. We never, in our 63-year history, we have never allowed unmanned Predator drones from ANY country to fly over our skies and kill our citizens.

Fatima Bhutto

#8. Nobby would nick anything and dodge anything, but he wasn't bad. You could trust him with your life, although you'd be daft to trust him with a dollar.

Terry Pratchett

#9. They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?

Terry Pratchett

#10. Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.

Mao Zedong

#11. Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.

Neil Young

#12. Break my heart for what breaks yours
Everything I am for Your Kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity

Hillsong United

#13. Ah, that's where you score, Nobby," said Colon. "Uniforms is OK. Adds a bit of tone, in fact. Especially if you look dashing," he said, ignoring the evidence that Nobby was, in fact, merely runny.

Terry Pratchett

#14. You have the courage and power to live your dreams.

Les Brown

#15. My mum's uncle was a sailor," said Nobby. "But after the big plague he got press-ganged. Bunch of farmers got him drunk, and he woke up next morning tied to a plough.

Terry Pratchett

#16. I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

Clara Schumann

#17. How do you spell 'contravention'?" said Carrot, turning over a page.
"I don't," said Nobby, pushing through the crowds.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up.
"I've always wondered about his name," said Nobby, turning and waving. "I mean ... Legitimate?"
"Can't blame a mother for being proud, Nobby," said Colon.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Well, we decided to have a bite, so I sent Nobby out to the baker's, see, and, well, we fought the prisoner ought to have something to eat . . .' 'Yes?' said Vimes encouragingly. 'Well, when Nobby asked him if he wanted his figgin toasted, he just give a scream and ran off.

Terry Pratchett

#20. wall. He'd wait for five more

Kendra Elliot

#21. We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

Albert Camus

#22. He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no-one knew where he kept it.
The point was that everyone else had someone, even if in Nobby's case it was probably against their will.

Terry Pratchett

#23. Add up the bastard!" shouted Nobby enthusiastically. "Total, Nobby," said Colon. "You mean 'total.

Terry Pratchett

#24. Nobby had survived any number of famous massacres by not being there.

Terry Pratchett

#25. Well, I think," said Nobby, "that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for on a cold night wonderin' about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink.

Terry Pratchett