Terry Pratchett Quotes

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's.

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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I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

Alton Brown

TimeFoodCollegeSmallSmall Town

Ever since my grade school days, as I mastered the art of 'faking sick' and I stumbled across 'The View,' I've been confusedly asking myself the same question... How do these dumb broads remain gainfully employed?

Steven Crowder

ArtMyselfSchoolSickViewDumb

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.

Roger Bannister

ThinkEnvironmentTryingFindPlace

I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me.

Ron Carlson

GoodPoetryCollegeMeSweetBook

Even though the weight I'm lifting isn't what it was when I was playing, it's not like I'm not lifting weights that are heavier than the common person would lift. I think a lot of people look at that and say, 'Whoa!'

Michael Strahan

PeopleThinkLookPersonLiftSay

I remember the first time I spoke to an editor. I thought I'd be sick, I was so nervous. The first time I spoke to a large group at a conference, I had the jitters for days beforehand.

Lori Foster

TimeSickThoughtRememberGroup

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

Chris Van Allsburg

TeacherCountryDoneWriteStudents

If the Russians masterminded fraud for 40 years at the highest state level in sports, operating behind the scenes to corrupt sports, what else are they capable of?

Bryan Fogel

SportsFraudCapableYearsCorrupt

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

William Shakespeare

TimeWillEventsManyWhichWomb

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

Paul Wellstone

PartyDemocraticDemocratic Party

I used to think the word 'feminist' reeked of insecurity. A woman who needed to state that she was equal to a man might as well be shouting that she was smart or brave. If you were, you wouldn't need to say it.

Paulina Porizkova

WomanManSmartBraveInsecurity

The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less homogeneous system which has resulted from the decomposition of plant and animal remains. It is teeming with life.

Selman Waksman

LifeAnimalPlantRocksSoilDead

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