Diggers Quotes

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

“That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“If you have a purpose in life, you can feel six inches tall.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“She sniffed, and smiled a bit, but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn't understand you it's someone who understands perfectly, before you've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Funny how people needed to argue. The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying, Masklin had noticed.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“And, just when you’d got out of the flower, and were feeling really proud of yourself, you’d look at the new, big, wide endless world around you. And eventually you’d notice that it had petals around the horizon.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“but there was something unstoppable”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“important thing was to let them take their own time, and not frighten them away.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“phenomena extremely interesting. It would just be nicer to find them extremely interesting from somewhere nice and snug, inside.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“All people really wanted, Dorcas considered, was to be left alone. The world was quite difficult enough as it was without people going around trying to make it better all the time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers