Terry Pratchett Quotes

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AngerGovernmentAngryYouGoing

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

GoodBestBetterFriendsYouYour

Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.

Jeffrey C. Hall

HistoryProblemFastPlaceBarriers

When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word 'prose,' or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.

Michael Hastings

LovePassionJobDeepInformation

Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.

Steve Largent

LifeFootballRememberMoreAlways

I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!

Rose McGowan

HomeHistoryFeelBirthAlwaysGet

I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me.

Jonathan Groff

ChangeMusicPassionSpringMeRock

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Doris Lessing

LearningTimePeopleLiteratureNow

The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.

Brendan Sexton III

PeopleBlackDownWildHawkFilm

I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Bryan White

MusicHeartGuitarCountryUpKinds

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

Aretha Franklin

MeSongThinkChurchFenceFirst

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

Tim Rice

ReligiousEnthusiasticLargeSunk

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Nicolas Chamfort

MindConscienceConviction

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