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Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1) QUOTES

Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1) QUOTES

1 " 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 , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

2 " ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

3 " 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 , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

4 " 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 , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

5 " 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 , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

6 " 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 , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

7 " 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 , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

8 " 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 , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

9 " Chances are where you find them "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

10 " If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

11 " Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

12 " Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

13 " She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

14 " The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

15 " A month went by quickly. It didn't want to hang around. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

16 " Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. "Oograah" means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see it, if you can't eat it, it's not worth naming it. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

17 " en el interior de cada anciano, hay un joven preguntándose qué demonios ha pasado. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

18 " Believe it. That was the way. Never stop believing. Fool the eye, fool the brain. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

19 " He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

20 " According to the history books, the decisive battle that ended the Ankh-Morpork Civil War was fought between two handfuls of bone-weary men in a swamp early one misty morning and, although one side claimed victory, ended with a practical score of Humans 0, ravens 1,000, which is the case with most battles. "

― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)