Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.

Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.

I am a competitor, I want to go out there and lay it all on the line for my team.

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.

People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].