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Terry Pratchett Quotes

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Death Goodbye Think Loved You Look

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death Law True Death Penalty Begin

Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

Steve Tisch

Great Puzzle Mouth Hollywood Never

Don't be afraid to try new things, because I just tried shot put not knowing my family history behind it, and trying it led me to the rest of my life.

Michelle Carter

Life Family History New Things Me

Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled out by a hostile, malicious universe that is picking exclusively on me.' And then you read a book about bad days and realize they happen to everyone, not just tormented, persecuted you.

Judith Viorst

Day I Am Me Book Bad Day Think

In 2018, my biggest worry is actually about North Korea. I worry a great deal that they may do a destructive attack, perhaps against our financial sector, in an attempt to deter a potential U.S. strike against either their nuclear facilities or even the regime itself.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Great Potential Financial Worry May

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

Dewitt Bodeen

Lie Fog World Sin Places Low

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Denis Waitley

Mistakes Only Lessons Failures

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Dean Koontz

Character Style Story Long Matter

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Arnold H. Glasow

Technology Country Inventions Needs

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

Alfredo Kraus

Singing Will Must

I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception about my reserved demeanour that was misconstrued as arrogance. But when people interact with you, then they know the real you.

Shahid Kapoor

Time Myself People World Perception

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

Henry Rollins

Great Endurance Los Angeles Tests