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TERRY EAGLETON After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in... TERRY EAGLETON HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE... TERRY PRATCHETT There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach sma... TERRY PRATCHETT The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surp... TERRY PRATCHETT [And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterward... TERRY PRATCHETT Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. TERRY PRATCHETT Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still aliv... TERRY PRATCHETT You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag... TERRY PRATCHETT A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand... TERRY PRATCHETT Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a... TERRY PRATCHETT Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet... TERRY PRATCHETT I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th... TERRY PRATCHETT Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi... TERRY PRATCHETT It's still magic even if you know how it's done. TERRY PRATCHETT Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ... TERRY PRATCHETT If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe... TERRY PRATCHETT We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ... TERRY HANDS I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ... QUINLAN TERRY The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. TERRY RILEY It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ... TERRY EAGLETON Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo... TERRY PRATCHETT Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu... ELLEN TERRY There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w... TERRY PRATCHETT Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec... TERRY EAGLETON Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro... TERRY MCCORMICK Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue... TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ... TERRY EAGLETON People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh... TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ... TERRY WAITE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology.... TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ... TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a... TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. TERRY GILLIAM