Terry Pratchett Quotes

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SimpleEatingStartThinkingYou

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

Jimmy Page

LearningMusicArtSchoolIdeas

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Jim Gaffigan

MeThinkParentBetterSomething

AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story.

Jim Brown

PeopleSympathyStoryYouWantWay

Who's to say I can't find some great work when I'm 55 or 65?

Andie MacDowell

WorkGreatFindSayGreat WorkSome

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

Tracy Chapman

GoodJailBeingReasonsProtesting

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Tracy McMillan

WorkLearnYouRelationshipsNever

Judges have their own point of view, and we have to respect them for that. Rather than feeling bad, we respect our judges and their opinions.

Rithvik Dhanjani

RespectViewOpinionsPoint Of View

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Ronald Reagan

SuccessPeopleMeasureLeaveWelfare

To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

Julia Quinn

HeartDayWritingForwardLeapDuke

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Jean de la Bruyere

FutureChildrenPastPresentEnjoy

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Joseph Stalin

PeopleElectionDecideCountCast

I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

Johnny Marr

GreatTimePeopleGreenWriting

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Terry Pratchett