Pratchett Sam Vimes Quotes

#1. And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

Terry Pratchett

#2. I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

Alexander Girard

#3. Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

Bob Dylan

#4. What's the orbital velocity of the moon?

Terry Pratchett

#5. A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had.

Terry Pratchett

#6. There's lots of people will help you with alcohol business, but there's no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, 'My name is Sam Vimes and I'm a really suspicious bastard.

Terry Pratchett

#7. It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

Richard D. Zanuck

#8. Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

Katharine Isabelle

#9. I'm not a natural killer! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I kill people to do it, I'm reading the wrong manual!

Terry Pratchett

#10. Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam.
"Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?"
"'cos they torture people.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you."
"Sir?"
"It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority."
"Sir?"
"That's practically zen.

Terry Pratchett

#12. There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

John Updike

#13. Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I assure you I will not kill you," said Inigo.
"I know that," said Vimes. "But will you try?

Terry Pratchett

#15. Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to ... yes, a ball."
"Well, that's a lot of ... "
"Don't you dare, Sam.

Terry Pratchett

#16. I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.

Drake

#17. You can't outrun your problems, Daisy. They'll be just be waiting for you when you come back.

Sarah Hina

#18. Shut up sergeant. You're a free troll. That's an order
Sam Vimes

Terry Pratchett

#19. History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.

Terry Pratchett

#20. Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

Kamasi Washington

#21. There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn't be Sam Vimes anymore.

Terry Pratchett

#22. I was nothing more to him than a prison sentence, trapping him inside my walls and persecuting him for a crime he was tricked into committing.

Nikki Kelly