Terry Pratchett Looks Quotations

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

But ye gotta know where ye're just going to rush in. Ye canne just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason not to be.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Everywhere I look, I see something holy.

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Look out! He's got a daisy!

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ...

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

Quick, someone's coming! Look real!

The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”

But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were... what was the word... deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style.