Tiffany Aching Quotes

#1. But the banging of the door as punctuation caused Tiffany to think and she thought suddenly, I want to do it my way. Not how the other witches think it should be done. I can't be Granny Weatherwax for them. I can only be me, Tiffany Aching.

Terry Pratchett

#2. There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

Edmund Burke

#3. That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

Terry Pratchett

#4. Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so fed up with being young.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms
one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended.

George Orwell

#6. At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

Nathan Rabin

#8. pessimism works because it's self-fulfilling: if you're a slacker with low expectations, they'll probably be met.

Peter Thiel

#9. Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.

Osho

#10. Nobody gets something for nothing.

Gloria Swanson

#11. Falling in love is the easy part. It's everything else that happens afterward that's hard and takes work.

Maya Banks

#12. I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

Karl Rove

#13. Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn't divide easily into 'true' and 'false', but instead could be 'things that people needed to know at the moment' and 'things that they didn't need to know at the moment'.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.

Julie Andrews

#15. So many books, so little time.

Frank Zappa

#16. I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

Miranda Raison

#17. Dr. P. may therefore serve as a warning and parable -- of what happens to a science which eschews the judgmental, the particular, the personal, and becomes entirely abstract and computational.

Oliver Sacks

#18. always carry yourself like you just got best photo in America's Next Top Model even if your life constantly feels like you're on the bottom two.

A. Theodore Steegman

#19. Crowds always, and individuals as a rule, stand in need of ready-made opinions on all subjects. The popularity of these opinions is independent of the measure of truth or error they contain, and is solely regulated by their prestige.

Gustave Le Bon

#20. Then there is the dress. It has been owned by many sisters as well and has been taken up, taken out, taken down, and taken in by her mother so many times that it really ought to have been taken away.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Man believes and lives.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Terry Pratchett

#23. (...) or there will be a reckoning!

Terry Pratchett