A Quote Is A Terrible Thing To Waste.
 

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

--(Muriel Rukeyser)

A myth shared by many is a culture.
A myth shared by a few is a cult.
A myth shared by two is love.
A myth shared by one is insanity.

-- (Anonymous)
The best readers come to fiction to be free of … all that isn’t fiction.

-- (Philip Roth)

God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

-- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
We hold these truths to be self-evident,—that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

-- (Thomas Jefferson)

Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.

--(Henry Hancock)

A man threw himself through the window, a knife between his teeth, a Kalashnikov automatic rifle in one hand, a grenade in the other. "I glaim gis oteg in der gaing og der --" he paused. He tooke the knife out of his teeth and began again.

-- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly."

--(Edgar Friedenberg)
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

--(Yousuf Karsh)

Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Strata)
He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.

-- (Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic)
We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

--(Rutherford D. Rogers)

"You're dead," he said. Keli waited. She couldn't think of any suitable reply. "I'm not" lacked a certain style, while "Is it serious?" seemed somehow too frivolous.

-- Princess Keli in trouble (Terry Pratchett, Mort)
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called “significant literature” will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

--(Raymond Chandler)

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

--(Jacques Maritain)

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

-- The Four Horsemen of the Apocralypse encounter unexpected difficulties (Terry Pratchett, Sourcery)
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."

--(Douglas Adams, Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! [I found it!] but rather, 'hmm.... that's funny...'"

--(Isaac Asimov)
In fact, no gods anywhere play chess. They prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight to Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters)
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

--(Abraham Lincoln)

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

--(Reinhold Niebuhr)

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!)
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
--(Thomas Paine)
I HOPE WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANY OF THIS 'FOUL FIEND' BUSINESS AGAIN.

-- Death gets summoned by the college council (Terry Pratchett, Eric)
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"

--(Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate)

No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

--(William James)
"Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]"

-- (Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay)
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

--(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

It is not the end of the world, but you can see it from there."

--(Pierre Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister, commenting on Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

"You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage."

-- (Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)
Extinct is forever.

--(Friends of Animals)

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

--(Isaac Asimov)

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

--(Sun Tzu)

"Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave," said Vorbis. "So I understand," said the Tyrant. "I imagine that fish have no word for water."

-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions ... like a state of sheer terror."

--(W. K. Hartmann)

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'. Need I say more?"

--(Chris Rock)
PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'.

-- (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

--(Dorothy Nevill)
In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
--(George Orwell)
I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I TURN UP ONLY ONCE.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay)
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"

--(Charlie Brown, by Charles Schultz)

 

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