Terry O Quotes

It seems that the very wise have neglected to take notice of one rather important goddess ... Pipina, the lady with the apple of Discord. She knows that the universe, while it requires rules and stability, also needs just a tincture of chaos, the unexpected, the surprising. Otherwiseit would just be a mechanism
a wonderful mechanism, ticking away the centuries, but with nothing different happening. ~ Terry Pratchett

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's ... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-"
"Go for the throat ~ Terry Pratchett

Would eternity feel like a long time, or were all lives - from a personal viewpoint - entirely the same length? ~ Terry Pratchett

Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold"
'Is there a chorus?'
"Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".' said Hwel.
'You left out a "gold" there. ~ Terry Pratchett

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. ~ Terry Pratchett

Welcome to fear, Moist said to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. ~ Terry Pratchett

The Dean leaned toward an ear.
"I was saying," he said loudly, "that we didn't know the meaning of the word 'sex' when we were young."
"That's true. That's very true," said Poons. He stared reflectively at the flames. "Did we ever, mm, find out, do you remember? ~ Terry Pratchett

Not everything is meant for all to hear. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

It is probably a full description of Henry Lawsy's mind that if you had given him a book called How to Improve Your Mind in Five Minutes, he would have read it with a stopwatch. ~ Terry Pratchett

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win? ~ Randall Terry

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. ~ Terry Pratchett

What they did was sell invisible things. And after they'd sold what they had, they still had it. They sold what everyone needed but often didn't want. They sold the key to the universe to people who didn't even know it was locked. "I ~ Terry Pratchett

Knowledge equals power ...
The string was important. After a while the Librarian stopped. He concentrated all his powers of librarianship.
Power equals energy ...
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.
Energy equals matter ...
He swung into an avenue of shelving that was apparently a few feet long and walked along it briskly for half an hour.
Matter equals mass.
And mass distorts space. It distorts it into polyfractal L-space.
So, while the Dewey system has its fine points, when you're setting out to look something up in the multidimensional folds of L-space what you really need is a ball of string. ~ Terry Pratchett

I thought back to Europe, where this journey began, then to Berkeley and even Madison, where the plans were first hatched. I thought about how the road led through Amsterdam, Paris and Greece, how for Guy and Sarah it continued through Central Asia, and how for me it detoured through East Africa. I thought about how many people had started off on this same journey, and how few had made it this far. I thought about how, of all the possible destinations this was the farthest outpost, the most remote spot of all - Kathmandu was the end of the road. ~ Terry Tarnoff

Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography. ~ Terry Pratchett

Bee there Orr Bee A Rectangular Thyng ~ Terry Pratchett

My programming language was solder. ~ Terry Pratchett

Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it! ~ Terry Pratchett

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. ~ Terry Bradshaw

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles. ~ Terry Pratchett

Well, first I'd want a better vibrato. ~ Terry Kath

People are not impressed by watching interviewees cry. People recognize chat shows with personalities as the trivial things that they are. They're not designed to be deep. Quite frankly, people in show business don't stand up to in-depth scrutiny. ~ Terry Wogan

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

She turned off all the lights in the duplex and peered out the windows, moving from one room to the next to see if she could catch sight of the a black sedan. Security lights and streetlights in her complex cast a strange orange glow on the misty snow. It looked like the perfect night for a murder. ~ Terry Spear

Thoughts always moved slowly through Brutha's mind, like icebergs. They arrived slowly and left slowly and when they were there they occupied a lot of space, much of it below the surface. ~ Terry Pratchett

And then ... they thought I was evil," she said, over another shoulder.
"Are you?" said Tiffany
Both of Miss Level turned around shocked.
"What kind of question is that to ask anyone?" she said.
"Um ... the obvious one?" said Tiffany. "I mean, if they said, 'Yes, I am! Mwahahaha!' that would save a lot of trouble, wouldn't it ~ Terry Pratchett

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed. ~ Terry Pratchett

You burn down an entire town, and don't even invoke me?" an angry female voice asked from behind me.
"I didn't think you'd be interested," I shrugged, bending back to my work.
"It was a huge whopping fire!" she snorted. "I'm a fire goddess! That's my primal function! Flaming hells, you were using thermite! Thermite!" she repeated. "How would I not be interested?"
"Did no one else invoke you?" I asked, as I continued to work.
"Certainly! Hundreds did! There was a fire elemental rolling around in there for a while! I showed up personally! But did my most famous lay worshipper bother to invoke me, and share the exquisite bliss of thousands of degrees of pure combustible magic? Minalan!" she pleaded. "Are you losing interest in me?"
"Now, now," I chuckled, "the truth is I was just busy. Astyral was showing off, and I had to give him my full attention. Having a pretty goddess around, making sex noises while she watched the blaze, might have been distracting."
"I don't make sex noises!" she declared, defensively. "I . . . I just . . I'm a fire goddess, it's what I do!" she said, nearly whining. ~ Terry Mancour

He was not, by the standard definitions, a bad man; in the same way a plague-bearing rat is not, from a dispassionate point of view, a bad animal. ~ Terry Pratchett

Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already. ~ Terry Pratchett

At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

I never said nothing ... "
"I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead! ~ Terry Pratchett

By his own admission, he would rather run ten miles, leap a five-bar gate and climb a big hill than engage in any athletic activity. ~ Terry Pratchett

I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s and '70s. My attitude resembles that of my parents, who were born in the '20s and lived through the Great Depression and World War II. ~ Terry Teachout

I am not frightened,' said Lord Tang. 'I am ashamed. ~ Terry Pratchett

It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don't normally impinge on the world because the extra dimensions are very small and curve in on themselves, and that since reality is fractal most of it is tucked inside itself. This means either that the universe is more full of wonders than we can hope to understand or, more probably, that scientists make things up as they go along. ~ Terry Pratchett

We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. I ~ Terry Pratchett

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People. ~ Terry Pratchett

Have you heard the old adage advising to always grow oleanders at your back door? Nicci asked. ~ Terry Goodkind

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. ~ Terry Pratchett

Earth" is an acronym, which stands for Educational Avatar Reality Training Habitat. A clever, albeit nerdy, description of our intention for the virtual school yard we created for our children. ~ Terry Schott

You're walking around, Sam, with a weapon you don't know how to use. That's worse than walking around knowing how to use a weapon and not having one. A man with a weapon he doesn't know how to use is likely to have it shoved where the sun does not shine. ~ Terry Pratchett

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves. ~ Terry McMillan