anniwhere’s most recent Quotables

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.

Write the book you want to read.

Reading one book is like eating one crisp.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.

I don’t cause commotions, I am one.

I mean, who steals a dead woman’s shoes? Must’ve been raised in a barn!

Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!

Coffee was only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your slightly older self.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

"That's blasphemy," said the vampire. He gasped as Vimes shot him a glance like sunlight. "That's what people say when the voiceless speak."

"It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind."

Now... bring me that horizon.