Terry Pratchett Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Flower, Wine, Mean

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.87, Random House

• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Rivers, Water, Citizens

• It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

  Terry Pratchett

  Water, Sound, Tin

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.188, Random House

• Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fire, Air, Water

• I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Dwarves, Medicine

• Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.

  Terry Pratchett

  Art, Pain, Taken

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.328, Random House

• He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

  Terry Pratchett

  Spring, Rivers, Water

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.91, Random House

• And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, which had always worked on the damned in the past. This time they had earned him a whack on the nose that had made his eyes water. Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls. He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he planned would consist of jumping around and yapping excitedly at it. It was a long shot, but it just might work.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Mean, Cat

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, ‎Terry Pratchett, 1990.

• I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!

  Terry Pratchett

  Fire, Water, Buckets

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.64, Random House

• Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows." His forehead creased for a moment, and then he slapped the steering wheel triumphantly. "Ducks!" he shouted. "What?" "That's what water slides off!" Aziraphale took a deep breath. "Just drive the car, please," he said wearily.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ducks, Water, Car

• Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Night, Clouds

• The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Water, Mind, Hippo

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.69, Random House

• I imagine that fish have no word for water.

  Terry Pratchett

  Water, Imagine, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.184, Random House

• I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Fall, People

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