Frases de Terry Pratchett

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“Histórias da imaginação tendem a perturbar aqueles sem uma.”

“Se os gatos se parecessem com sapos, nos daríamos conta do quanto desgraçados, nojentos e cruéis eles são. Estilo. É disso que as pessoas se lembram.”

“O problema de ter uma mente aberta, é claro, é que as pessoas insistem em aparecer e tentar colocar as coisas nela.”

“A sabedoria resulta da experiência. A experiência é frequentemente consequência da falta da sabedoria.”

“No começo não havia nada, que explodiu.”

“Por que você vai embora? Para que você possa voltar. Para que você possa ver o lugar de onde veio com novos olhos e cores extras. E as pessoas de lá vêem você de maneira diferente também. Voltar para onde você começou não é o mesmo que nunca sair.”

“As pessoas invisíveis sabiam que a felicidade não é o estado natural da humanidade e que nunca é alcançada de fora para dentro.”

“sempre use roupas íntimas completamente limpas, porque nunca se sabe quando um cavalo em fuga irá derrubá-la e matá-la, e, se as pessoas perceberem que você está com roupas de baixo insatisfatórias, você morrerá de vergonha.”

“… ela perdia tempo desejando coisas em vez de pensar num jeito de fazê elas acontecerem.”

“Talvez a magia ainda fosse durar muito tempo. Talvez não. Mas, pensando bem, o que dura?”

“A maioria dos deuses joga dados, mas o Destino joga xadrez, e você não descobre até que seja tarde demais que ele estava jogando com duas rainhas o tempo todo.”

“Se você não transformar sua vida em uma história, você vai acabar se tornando parte da história de alguém.”

“Bondade é sobre o que você faz. Não sobre para quem você reza.”

“Esse tipo de coisa acontece muito. Sabe, depois que a mulher cria os filhos e tal, ela tem vontade de começar a viver a própria vida.
—Ela tava vivendo a vida de quem, então?”

“Em noites como estas os deuses, como já foi dito, jogam outros jogos que não xadrez com os destinos dos mortais e os tronos de reis. Mas é importante lembrar que eles fazem batota mesmo até ao fim…”

“Tenho medo do chão. - Queres dizer alturas. (…) - Eu sei o que quero dizer! O que nos mata é o chão!”

“Imaginação, não a inteligência, é o que nos torna humanos.”

“TEM MEDO DE MORRER?
— Não que eu não queira.. quer dizer, eu sempre.. é que a vida é um hábito difícil de deixar.”

“Eu disse a ela: Simplicity Alho era sua mãe, Araminta Alho era sua avó. Yolande Alho é sua tia, e você é sua… você é seu eu. Ela se recostou com a expressão satisfeita de quem disse tudo o que qualquer um jamais quis saber sobre uma crise pessoal de identidade.”

“Tão ameaçadora quanto saldo negativo no banco”

“A sabedoria é uma das poucas coisas que parecem maiores quanto mais longe estão.”

“Não é preciso ver, ao contrário do que diz a sabedoria popular, para crer. A visão é onde a crença termina, porque ela não se faz mais necessária.”

“Eu prefiro ser um macaco subindo do que um anjo caindo.”

“A presença daqueles que procuram a verdade é infinitamente preferível à presença dos que pensam que já a encontraram.”

“Uma boa livraria é só um buraco negro educado que sabe ler.”

“Uma chave para compreender todas as religiões é que a ideia de diversão para um deus é jogar? Cobras e Escadas? com os degraus oleados.”

“Para os animais o mundo foi convenientemente dividido em a)acasalar com b)comer c)fugir de d)pedras.”

“Desculpa lá estar vivo. -NINGUÉM TEM DESCULPA POR ESTAR VIVO.”

“Mas jarras de leite não caem do céu" - objetou Tomjon, demonstrando o surpreendente talento humano de negar o óbvio.”

“Tarde o temprano todo se reduce al alma.”

“Não há mapas. Não é possível mapear o sentido de humor.”

“.. dizem viajar amplia a mente, eu acho que poderia puxar a minha pelas orelhas e dar um nó debaixo do queixo,…”

“Ficar enlameado quando se pode esperar por uma bela banheira de água quente é divertido. Ficar enlameado quando tudo o que se pode esperar é mais lama não é nada divertido.”

“Ela era linda, mas era linda na forma como um incêndio florestal era lindo: algo para ser admirado à distância, não de perto.

Spanish:
Ella fué bella, pero lo fué en la forma en que el fuego en el bosque fué bello: algo para admirar desde la distancia, no tan cerca.”

“I asked a teacher what the opposite of a miracle was and she, without thinking, I assume, said it was an act of God.
You shouldn't say something like that to the kind of kid who will grow up to be a writer; we have long memories.”

“I can't have your subjects throwing my family over the balcony, that would never do.'
'Good,' said Snibril.
'I'll do it myself.”

“Nerds are the only people who know how to operate the video recorder.”

“I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.”

“Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living.”

“Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance…”

“Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.").”

“I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.”

“I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.”

“As a boy I had a clear image of the Almighty: He had a tail coat and pinstriped trousers, black, slicked-down hair and an aquiline nose.
On the whole, I was probably a rather strange child, and I wonder what my life might have been like if I'd met a decent theologian when I was nine.”

“The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being mad except that it's quieter. If only you could mix them together, you'd end up with normal people.”

“Too many people want to have written.”

“Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet. They'd all be trying to cheat one another in that open-and-above-board way known as 'doing business.”

“It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.”

“Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the environment, you're being chased and eaten by most of the planet's large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr.”

“Currently there's five machines permanently networked here. They all contain the serious core stuff. A couple of the machines are pensioned off 486s, with little other value now. Plus there's two Jaz drives in the building and the portable also carries a fair amount of stuff. Plus every Friday a man comes around and carves all the new stuff onto stone slabs and buries them in the garden… I think I'm okay.”

“I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.”

“In Reading [England] there is this thing called the IDR, short for "Inner Distribution Road", which is bureaucratese for "Big thing that cost a lot of money and relieves traffic problems, provided all your traffic wants to orbit the town centre permanently". It's a 2-3 lane dual carriageway that goes round the town centre. It has lots of roundabouts, an overhead section, a couple of spare motorway-like exits (that's British motorways -- y'know, the roundabout with the main road going under it), and a thing called the Watlington Street Gyratory, where you have to get in lane for your intended destination about three years and two corners before you get there with no signposting. I used to cycle along it every day to get to school, before I fell off at 35 mph. [Kids! Don't try this at home! ] I know it well. I believe it is impossible to leave Reading heading west.”

“I have to admit that I drive past Bridgwater quite regularly. And fast.”

“I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce”

“As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.”

“My programming language was solder.”

“Well … welcome. My house is your house', his brow suddenly furrowed and he looked worried, 'although only in a metaphorical sense, you understand, because I would not, much as I always admired your straightforward approach, and indeed your forthright stance, actually give you my house, it being the only house I have, and therefore the term is being extended in an, as it were, gratuitous fashion”

“I was thinking of 'duh?' in the sense of 'a sentence containing several words more than three letters long, and possibly requiring general knowledge or a sense of history that extends past last Tuesday, has been used in my presence.”

“Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.”

“Boot-faced cats aren't born but made, often because they've tried to outstare or occasionally rape a speeding car and have been repaired by a vet who just pulled all the bits together and stuck the stitches in where there was room.”

“What would Deftmenes be if we went around obeying orders all the time?'
'They might be ruling the Carpet,' said Pismire.
'Ha!' said Brocando, 'but the trouble about obeying orders is, it becomes a habit. And then everything depends on who's giving the orders.”

“The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them…”

“While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.”