Quotes

“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.” Terry Pratchett

“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.” Terry Pratchett

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.” Terry Pratchett

“Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.” Terry Pratchett

“He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."” Terry Pratchett

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” Terry Pratchett

“It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.” Terry Pratchett

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” Terry Pratchett

“Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.” Terry Pratchett

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.” Terry Pratchett

“Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.” Terry Pratchett

“Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.” Terry Pratchett

“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.” Terry Pratchett

“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.” Terry Pratchett

“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.” Terry Pratchett

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.” Terry Pratchett

“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.” Terry Pratchett

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” Douglas Adams

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” Douglas Adams

“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” Douglas Adams

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” Douglas Adams

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.” Douglas Adams

“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.” Douglas Adams

“I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams

“I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.” Douglas Adams

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Douglas Adams

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” Douglas Adams

“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.” Douglas Adams

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?” Douglas Adams