Fave Quotes (Terry Pratchett)

[Skip]

OK, bit of a cop out one here
Luggage: '........'
*menacing stare*

I need to have a flick through for others, or I'll misquote V badly...

[Sci-Fi16]

Great idea for a thread Skip.
OK, off the top of my head...
What about that one in 'Guards! Guards!' with,
"Throw the book at him, Carrot."
"Right sir!"
Vimes remebered too late, Dwarfs have trouble with metaphors, they also have very good aim. The book struck the secretery on the forehead. Wonse blinked, staggered, and stepped backwards. It was the longest step he ever took. For one thing, it lasted the rest of his life.
Hmm, I know thats more of an extract then an actual qoute, but I just love that scene.

[Skip]

ooh, good one. I like the bit in fifth elephant. Misquote comin up.
"Mister Sonky said they was free to the watch..."
hehehehe!
Almost eveything he writes is worth quoting!

[jsc]

SCI-FI16,

Hi! I just noticed your post in Quiz. Don't you dare stop posting! This is just as much your forum as it is mine! We are supposed to be friendly here and what happened to make you sad wasn't friendly. I AM SORRY. Read what Skydiver has to say and ignore the rest! If I could contact you by email I would have said the same thing. People unfortunately forget what it is like to be new. That newness means taking risks and being both right and wrong. It can be very difficult to feel so vulnerable. And it is worse to feel new and get scraped like that.
Ignore the harsh remarks most of the idiots don't realize how they sound and would be hurt that you were hurt. Hope they realize it from you post there. Don't give up! We like you and you have a lot to say! As for butting in, well I just did. Keep coming back ... we might be worth it.

Granny J.

HEY, I am still reading Pratchette's first Disc World one
AND CACKLING over the magic pearwood chest!

[Cap'tCrash]

Well said Jsc,(you can put my vote to you each time dimple or no dimple!)
'LUGGAGE'
the word you are looking for is 'The Luggage'
Welcome to our world jsc!
I found a really great site that had all the bestest ever quotes but can I find it now?
NO!
My quote is...
'er.... HO HO HO'
Death tries a career change!

[Skip]

Gaspode: Woof?

hehehehehe!

Jsc, you gonna have to read fast girl!
SF, ignore em! Texy upset me at first, but I just shouted back and nicked her soldiers... still got some...

[jsc]

Lol! Skip,Does she miss them? They are like her shoes many and more!

Am trying to read. Problem is that I have so much and can't do half of what I want!

[Sci-Fi16]

Hey, jsc, I'm not going to stop posting over that, I just got a little embarrassed, nothing majorly important. Thank you Skip, oh, and I have E-mailed you. Hmm, good qoutes, what about that one from 'The Truth' (Not a spoiler)
"The Truth will make you fret, or Fred, or possibly even Free"
Can't remember where it is in the book, or if I just read it on the poster in Waterstones, but funny, all the same.
"From the back, Vetinari looked like a carnvorus flamingo" - probably true.

[Skip]

Jsc, she han't noticed, so don't tell her!

Glad you happy Sci-fi16. I could give you a jaffa... good quotes! ROTFL!

[Sci-Fi16]

OK then, take a look at these:
There is a curse, they say 'May you live in Interesting Times.'
"This is Lord Mountjoy Quickfang Winterforth IV, the hottest dragon in the city. It could burn your head clean off."
It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military manoeuvres, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.
I've got these only because my sister found a programme, initially meant for 'Friends' quotes, but you can change it for others (E.g, my copy includes Discworld, Pern, and 'Hitch Hikers...' and SG-1).

Lastly, one of my faves 'De Chelonian Moblie!'

[Skip]

Great, just great.
My room is a bombsite at the mo and access to books is NO-NO or I would look...

I tell a lie.

Ars enixia est candelam

Um, I fink is rite, but my latin only wonky one way anyway...


[Edited by Skip on 12-21-2000 at 11:56 AM]

[Sci-Fi16]

Latin! I haven't done latin for two years......Oh, wait, I get it. It's to do with the language stuff in 'Feet of Clay', isn't it? Here's my lot then:

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to a man and he's warm for the rest of his life.

It is better to light a flamethrower then curse the darkness.

Bel Shamharoth was the flip side of the coin on which Good and Evil are on the same side.

A vauge translation on your Latin Skip - 'Arsenic in the candles', or something to that effect, if I remeber FOC correctly.

[Skip]

Ars Enixia candelam.
Actually it was meant to translate as:
‘Art brought forth the candle’
Art being both archaic ‘is’ and a pun(e) on the bloke’s name whilst the Ars…enixia elided in English (or Morporkian) to be Arsenic candel(am). Which was the Dragon King of Arms’ idea of a 4 way joke and is about the level of my mentality as I can remember it!
I still love the ‘Pecuni’- I have sinned, meaning; I have Sind.
Sind being a town a bloke conquered. I can’t remember names but I can remember quotes that are puns! How sad!
And I’ve just realised that I must change my sig when I get time, it really s*cks!
Don’t sweat it, I am sad for remebering!

[Sci-Fi16]

On the translation - 'Oh yeah, forgot that bit.'
Ummm, OK then:

"Twas' beauty that killed the beast." But the faculty of Unseen University rather thought it was the 800ft drop form the tower of Art that did it. -MP, serious miss-qoute

By the way, Skip that qoute with the 'small-place' thing was from 'Moving Pictures', precisly why I got that way off I do not know. I also have changed my sig, this one I made up in a RE lesson.

[Skip]

I like it. Mine is just weird and need some thought. I do have an idea tho... Love the quote. I'm reading the Truth now and I love Tulip '-ing' is what I say. Nice big pause. I hung around too many guys in uniform and that is the best I can do now as I'm permanatly scarred