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Terry Pratchett Quotes
«Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Taxation
| Keywords:
demanding, menaced, menaces, menacing, sophisticated, taxation, The Menace
«Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
«He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
banqueting, banquets, bore, bought, complicated, cookery, fascinated, hungry, noticed, pictures, picture book, recipes, resemblance, vast
«The little flickering part of his brain that was still sparking coherent thought through the fog of mind-numbing terror that filled Colon's head was telling him that he was so far out of his depth that the fish had lights on their noses»
«An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
An Ancient, Broken Glass, glass in, proverb, ran, summed, wizard
«Rincewind formed a mental picture of some strange entity living in a castle made of teeth. It was the kind of mental picture you tried to forget. Unsuccessfully.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
castle, entities, entity, formed, mental picture, teeth, unsuccessfully
«Taxation is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. And I'm afraid to say, that these days, all I'm getting is moo.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dairy, dairy farming, extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, farming, farms, maximum, milk, minimum, moo, taxation, These Days, The Farm, The Task, very much, very much like
«A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
balls, basic unit, billiard, billiards, established, magical, normal, pigeon, sized, small white, unit, units, universally
