Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carriger

She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

Emile M. Cioran

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

Isaac Marion

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

Terry Pratchett

Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.

Terry Pratchett

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

Terry Pratchett

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!

Terry Pratchett

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

Terry Pratchett

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.