Terry Pratchett: Frasi in inglese (pagina 24)

“Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.”

“Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.”

“It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.”

“Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.”

“Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.”

“Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.”

“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave… you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”

“Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.”

“[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!”

“I never said nothing…"
"I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!”

“Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.”

“And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.”

“Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.”

“Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.”

“It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.”

“Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.”

“Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.”

“We're on a mission from Glod.”

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”