Terry Pratchett Day Quotations

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up over the door (...) and you know what? Its mum come and complained. Its actual mum come right down to the hall next day and complained. Actually complained. That's the respect you get.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

And the new day was a great big fish

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.

They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.