Terry Pratchett Patrician Quotes

#1. The trick of getting donkeys down from minarets," said the Patrician, as the desert unwound below them, "is always to find that part of the donkey which seriously wishes to get down." The

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#2. He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.

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#3. And there, nestled against Bob's bitch tits I found my release.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

Vincent Van Gogh

#5. There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five?

Clifford Odets

#6. I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

Afrika Bambaataa

#7. And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.

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#8. 1. Do No Harm 2. Make Things Better 3. Respect Others 4. Be Fair 5. Be Loving

Bruce Weinstein

#9. The Patrician could read," said Spelter. "Not if you cut off his index finger," said Carding.

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#10. We stand up for the farmers
Who can't keep enough to eat
We walk out for the workers
Who don't know the taste of meat
We run forward for the children
With no shoes upon their feet
We will march this kingdom down
We will break the golden crown

Shannon Hale

#11. The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork sat back on his austere chair with the sudden bright smile of a very busy person at the end of a crowded day who's suddenly found in his schedule a reminder saying: 7.00-7.05, Be Cheerful and Relaxed and a People Person.

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#12. You walk into a strip club with a wad of cash; they all flock around you. Strippers are just pigeons with tits. They go where the bread is.

Chris Hardwick

#13. Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry.

Joseph Fink

#14. You need to be grounded internally and excited about the world around you. If I were out of touch, it would be hard for me to know why Michael Cera is so cool.

Stacey Snider

#15. The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

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#16. Gentlemen, please," said the Patrician. He shook his head. "Let's have no fighting, please. This is, after all, a council of war.

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#17. I also have to add that if Rembrandt had been given a camera then that guys understanding of light and form would have blown the rest of us shooters into a black hole of despair.

Steve Merrick

#18. Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

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#19. The Patrician was not a man you shook a finger at unless you wanted to end up being able to count only to nine.

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#20. You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

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#21. The threat made Liam smile. There was something to be said for having someone like you so much they chained you to a wall.

Lyn Gala

#22. Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life.

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#23. Fascinating, said the Patrician, and went back to not listening to Dibbler. He had not got where he was today by bothering how things worked. It was how people worked that intrigued him.

Terry Pratchett