Terry Pratchett Quotes

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

Topics

AlonePeopleBraveFeelYouSee

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Andre Maurois

StyleHandTemperamentHallmark

The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.

John Perry Barlow

GovernmentLimitsLegalInformation

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.

John Pomfret

FreedomDemocracyControlThought

Charity only works when smart, innovative, compassionate people in the field are supported from home. The World of Children Award raises money and visibility for change makers, people doing the real work. We are a conduit for funding and resources only; all of our operating costs are covered by our generous board of governors.

Stephanie March

WorkChangeHomeChildrenMoney

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

Sloan Wilson

DeathPeopleAmericanWantGroup

All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren't doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly.

Tony Dungy

GoodTimeJobOrganizationDoing

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Marya Mannes

GreatRoadLoversSeductionVerbal

I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you.

Mary H.K. Choi

LoveNew YorkYouNewSometimes

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

Little Richard

GodPresentHeOmniscientEver

My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.

Desiigner

MotherCityDifferentJobsWhile

I was a judge for the 2014 NYMF season. I've done it for a few years. They send you a certain amount of scripts and scores, and you rank them.

Donna Lynne Champlin

JudgeYouDoneYearsRankSeason

I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.

Chuck Feeney

GoodLiveTodayFunBelieveGiving

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