Pratchett Trolls Quotes

#1. You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. "Oograah" means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see it, if you can't eat it, it's not worth naming it.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic.

Chris Kilham

#4. I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?"
"Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.

Terry Pratchett

#6. The trouble was, the trolls up in the plaza probably weren't bad trolls, and the dwarfs down in the square probably weren't bad dwarfs, either. People who probably weren't bad could kill you.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Roads is never the fastest way to get nowhere," the woman says. "Don't ye know that?

Patrick Ness

#8. [Rincewind] drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.

Terry Pratchett

#9. The people kvetching about the new editing software never mastered the old editing software either.

John E. McIntyre

#10. We're a dying race," said Kwartz sadly, as the party set off under the stars. "Young Jasper's the only pebble in our tribe. We suffer from philosophy, you know.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

Eminem

#12. Vimes hung up the tube. Trolls with a message. It was unlikely to be an invitation to a literary lunch.

Terry Pratchett

#13. It's simply that in every crowd there's a twerp. All any twerp needs to do is protest loud and long, and he or she will get attention from other twerps who'll go along for the ride
after all, if such people didn't exist, the Ricki Lake Show wouldn't have an audience.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

Jesse Eisenberg

#15. Billy was guided by dread and the lack of dread. Dread told him when to stop. Lack of it told him when to move again.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. They had a point once. They said that we were being swallowed up by the humans and the trolls, and you know it's true, except that it's the wrong kind of truth. The kids've got human friends and one or two trolls as well and nobody notices, nobody thinks about it. Everyone is just people

Terry Pratchett

#17. All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

Martin Amis

#18. Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. 'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

#20. Racism was not a problem on the DIscworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Fake flattery or not, his words spiked my system with happy. Behold, the power of a guy paying attention to a girl.

Jenny B. Jones

#22. All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.

Marquis De Lafayette

#23. Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the discworld: the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trolley folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy.

Terry Pratchett

#24. A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Clive James

#25. When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

Denzel Whitaker