Terry Pratchett Quotes

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

John Berger

TogetherSelfNeverDogsBoredMust

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

Maya Angelou

GirlTruthBlackYouKnowWant

I'm a firm believer that there's no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and learn a tackling drill.

John Madden

LearnHelmetWayFirmShouldDrill

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

John Hersey

EducationLearningFailureBeginning

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Steffi Graf

WinYouLoseRealizeDifficultHow

I'm sure that they will continue to look for ways to try and undermine my support, but I have every confidence that in doing this job for South Dakota, I will continue to build on my support and be able to succeed once again in November.

Stephanie Herseth

ConfidenceJobSupportSucceedDoing

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

Steven Stucky

PatienceMusicCharacterHabitFake

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

Mitchel Musso

MusicPeopleGuitarArtistFirst

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

Little Richard

I AmRockRollFanArchitectAm

The trademark Joseph Abboud style is the man first and the clothes second. The guy's the star. Everything else is a supporting actor.

Joseph Abboud

StyleManClothesActorFirstStar

As governor, I want to make sure that Arizona's hardworking taxpayers get to keep more of what they earn.

Doug Ducey

WantMoreEarnKeepGetSure

It is very easy to get hurt in a match like the Royal Rumble. It seems very run of the mill, but it's always the stupid stuff where you get hurt.

Dean Ambrose

StupidHurtEasyYouRunRoyal

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