Quotes From "Moving Pictures" By Terry Pratchett

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. Terry Pratchett

The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has its own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you. Terry Pratchett

And one day Amber takes her troll’s dinner down to the cave and finds him–” Rock waved his hands in vague yet thoroughly descriptive motions “–with another lady troll. So she go home and get her club and come back and beat him to death, thump, thump, thump. ’Cos he was her troll and he done her wrong. Is very romantic song. Terry Pratchett

The Dean leaned toward an ear.“ I was saying, ” he said loudly, “that we didn’t know the meaning of the word ‘sex’ when we were young.”“ That’s true. That’s very true, ” said Poons. He stared reflectively at the flames. “Did we ever, mm, find out, do you remember? Terry Pratchett

And Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed anymore. Terry Pratchett

Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants. Terry Pratchett

Why us?" he said. "Why is it happening to us?"" Everything has to happen to someone, " said Ginger. Terry Pratchett

Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography. Terry Pratchett

Have a chocolate-covered raisin, ” he said.“ They look like rat droppings, ” said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom.“ So that’s it, ” he said. “The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot. Terry Pratchett

It was dawning on the wizards that they were outside the University, at night and without permission, for the first time in decades. A certain suppressed excitement crackled from man to man. Any watch trained in reading body language would have been prepared to bet that, after the click, someone was going to suggest that they might as well go somewhere and have a few drinks, and then someone else would fancy a meal, and then there was always room for a few more drinks, and then it would be 5 a.m. and the city guards would be respectfully knocking on the University gates and asking if the Archchancellor would care to step down to the cells to identify some alleged wizards who were singing an obscene song in six-part harmony, and perhaps he would also care to bring some money to pay for all the damage. Because inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. Terry Pratchett

Did I hear things, or can that little dog speak?” said Dibbler.“He says he can’t, ” said Victor.Dibbler hesitated. The excitement was unhinging him a little. “Well, ” he said, “I suppose he should know. Terry Pratchett

They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams! Terry Pratchett

There’s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork, greatest of Discworld c Terry Pratchett