Terry Prachett Quotes

#1. We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

Maria Montessori

#2. The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

Matthew Arnold

#4. Graffiti, citizens, is the name for the way capitalists deface their public buildings.

Adam Johnson

#5. I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

Gayle King

#6. 'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

Jim Beaver

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

Terry Pratchett

#8. 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

#9. I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

Avey Tare

#10. If you were hurt at a younger age, its the thought that is killing you now

John Hillman

#11. I feel again the hunger to let go of my striving and find the ability to become content and still, intentionally "superfluous," as writer Helen M. Luke puts it. I want a refuge from my old conquering self.

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

Jonathan Stroud

#13. My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be.

Kelly Sue DeConnick