Variante: A luz pensa que viaja mais rápido que qualquer coisa, mas está errada. Não importa quão rápido a luz viaje, ela descobre que a escuridão chegou lá primeiro, e estava esperando por ela.
Terry Pratchett Frases famosas
Citações de pessoas de Terry Pratchett
Frases sobre o tempo de Terry Pratchett
“Talvez a magia ainda fosse durar muito tempo. Talvez não. Mas, pensando bem, o que dura?”
Série Discworld, Guardas! Guardas!
Terry Pratchett frases e citações
Witches Abroad
“Tarde o temprano todo se reduce al alma.”
I Shall Wear Midnight
“Não há mapas. Não é possível mapear o sentido de humor.”
The Color of Magic
Terry Pratchett: Frases em inglês
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
Variante: And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Fonte: I Shall Wear Midnight
“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
Fonte: The Truth
Interview, quoted in "Words from the Master" http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/words-from-the-master.html in The Annotated Pratchett File http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html
General sources
Contexto: As for The Mapp... I suspect it'll never get a US publication. It seemed to frighten US publishers. They don't seem to understand it.
That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans:
A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or the other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.
“I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.”
Fonte: The Last Continent
“Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.”
Fonte: The Last Continent
The Nome Trilogy (1989 - 1990)
Variante: The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.
Fonte: Diggers (1990)
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
General sources
Variante: It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. This is in fact true. It's called living.
Fonte: The Last Continent
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
Fonte: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
Variante: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Fonte: Reaper Man
“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
Fonte: Sourcery