Terry Pratchett Quotes

In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HeartManRichRememberI CanBath

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Johan Huizinga

CultureCreateMustContinue

Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.

Jenny Zhang

LifeWalkRacismIdentityWorld

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

Andrea Mitchell

LovePoliticsMeDoingTastePretty

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

TechnologyExperienceWorldKnack

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

Anita Diament

PeopleCollegeMeBookChurchMore

The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless character. The real tsar, Alexander I, had an amazing career.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

CharacterPeaceWarAmazingCareer

The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.

Mike Marsh

ControlManagementReadingDataUsed

There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.

William M. Daley

BackWantDaysUsMoveOff

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Peter Ustinov

TodayDoorDoingSizeDangerAway

There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention.

Sendhil Mullainathan

FuturePeopleAttentionHardImage

I pole-dance. I do. I do it at an aerobics center. Having done gymnastics for 13 years, I find it's one of the only things where I can still use my core and all my muscles. Plus, it's fun: You're a girl, and you get to dance around a pole!

Serinda Swan

GirlDanceFunYouFindI Can

I'm so sleepy most of the time, but I guess it's 'cause I'm constantly doing things and trying to move forward and set up for the master plan. The master plan is to be, like, little baby Oprah, with my own production company, maybe my own channel, inspire millions.

Tiffany Haddish

TimeBabyForwardInspirePlan

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