Top 38 Ogg's Quotes
#1. Miss Lucy's called the bell o' St. Ogg's, they say: that's a cur'ous word,' observed Mr. Pullet, on whom the mysteries of etymology sometimes fell with an oppressive weight.
George Eliot
#2. It was central to Nanny Ogg's soul that she never considered herself an old woman, while of course availing herself of every advantage that other people's perceptions of her as such would bring.
Terry Pratchett
#3. Castles, in Nanny Ogg's experience, were like swans. They looked as if they were drifting regally through the waters of Time, but in fact there was a hell of a lot of activity going on underneath.
Terry Pratchett
#4. Ah ... it says here that she was, I mean is, fairer than all the stars in heaven ... ." They all looked at Tiffany. "You could try doing something with your hair," said Nanny Ogg after a while. "Like what?" said Tiffany. "Like anything, really.
Terry Pratchett
#5. Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.
Terry Pratchett
#6. The Main Revenue Accounts and Their Origin Revenue Chart of Accounts Air sales, Domestic Air Sales, International Cost of Domestic Air Sales Cost of Intl Air Sales Tour Sales Cruise Sales Cost of Tour Sales
Tom Ogg
#7. Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it could accommodate three football fields and a bowling alley.
Terry Pratchett
#8. ...she was definitely feeling several twinkles short of a glitter...
Terry Pratchett
#9. I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
Viola Davis
#10. There was more silence and Bosch pictured his partner on the other end of the line in a $900 suit and a bankrupt frown.
Michael Connelly
#11. Nanny Ogg scowled and said, "Granny never said as she was better than others. She just got on with it and showed 'em and people worked it out for themselves.
Terry Pratchett
#12. She's a queen. That's pretty high,' said Nanny Ogg. 'Almost as high as witches.
Terry Pratchett
#14. My husband is a very present husband, and that has made going to work feel easier. I don't feel guilty. I definitely feel less guilt because I know he's there during breakfast, lunch and supper if I'm not.
Jennifer Lawrence
#15. God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.
Albert Einstein
#16. I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.
Laurieann Gibson
#17. I did start out in witchcraft to get boys, to tell you the truth.'
'Think I don't know that?'
'What did you start out to get, Esme?'
Granny stopped, and looked up at the frosty sky and then down at the ground.
'Dunno,' she said at last.'Even, I suppose.
Terry Pratchett
#18. Oh, we're always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people.
-Nanny Ogg
Terry Pratchett
#19. You never know until you look, said Nanny Ogg, expounding her own Uncertainty Principle.
Terry Pratchett
#20. Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.
Terry Pratchett
#21. Valentine," I said, "are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Absolutely," he said. "If we put little wheels on our feet we could just roll around everywhere.
Neil Gaiman
#22. I wouldn't say I'm the best," she said, "but I can't think of anyone better, I have to say.
Terry Pratchett
#23. Nanny Ogg appreciated fine wine in her very own way. It would never have occurred to Casanunda that anyone would top up white wine with port merely because she'd reached the end of the bottle.
Terry Pratchett
#24. Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm.
Terry Pratchett
#25. The marathon will humble you. But the truth is, sometimes it will do more than humble you. Sometimes it will break your heart.
Bill Rodgers
#26. The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.
Noel Fisher
#27. Since all is empty, all is possible.
Nagarjuna
#28. Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.
Terry Pratchett
#29. Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz," said the demon smugly.
"Where were you when the vowels were handed out? Behind the door?" said Nanny Ogg.
Terry Pratchett
#30. It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.
Terry Pratchett
#31. Ah, Mr. Ogg! How I like you!" Mr. Owl cheered. "Always ready to break a neck. Good fellow!
M.L. LeGette
#32. Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
Claudette Colbert
#34. Nanny Ogg had a pragmatic attitude to the truth; she told it if it was convenient and she couldn't be bothered to make up something more interesting.
Terry Pratchett
#35. You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the flavor much better, so he buys it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#36. Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.
Terry Pratchett
#37. Nanny Ogg was about to say: What? You mean not compliant and self-effacing like what you is, Esme? But she stopped herself. You didn't juggle matches in a fireworks factory.
Terry Pratchett
#38. Nanny Ogg was sitting out in her back garden in the no-nonsense way of old ladies everywhere, legs wide apart for the healthy circulation of air.
Terry Pratchett
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