Terry Pratchett: Frasi in inglese (pagina 7)

“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

“Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."

"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”

“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”

“When in doubt, choose to live.”

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”

“Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.”

“Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.”

“This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”

“People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”

“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”

“No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.”

“Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”

“Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.”

“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.”

“She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.”

“Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.”

“I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?”

“Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”