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Ultra cool quotes by Terry Pratchett

"This had, she felt, left her a little twisted up.  Of course, to be fair, that was a parent's job.  The world was so full of sharp bends that if they didn't put a few twists in you, you wouldn't stand a chance of fitting in.  And they'd been conscientious and kind and given her a good home and even an education.  It had been a good education, too.  But it had only been later on that she'd realized that it had been and education in, well, education.  It meant that if anyone ever needed to calculate the volume of a cone, then they could confidently call on Susan Sto Helit.  Anyone at a loss to recall the campaigns of General Tacticus, or the square root of 27.4 would not find her wanting.  If you needed someone who could talk about household items and things to buy in the shops in five languages, then Susan was at the head of the queue.  Education had been easy.  Learning things had been harder  Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.  It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

She'd become a governess.  It was one of the few jobs a Known Lady could do.  She'd taken to it well.  She'd sworn that if she indeed ever did find herself dancing on the rooftops with chimney sweeps, she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella."

Terry and Lyn Pratchett's  "HOGFATHER"

 Seekers of Wisdom in Discworld

"It's a strange thing about determined seekers-after-wisdom that, no matter where they happen to be, they'll always seek that wisdom which is a long way off.  Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Hence, for example, the Way of Mrs. Cosmopolite, very popular among young people who live in the hidden valleys above the snowline in the high Ramtops.  Disdaining the utterances of their own saffron-clad, prayer-wheel-spinning elders, they occasionally travel all the way to No. 3 Quirm Street in flat and foggy Ankh-Morpork, to seek wisdom at the feet of Mrs. Marietta Cosmopolite, a seamstress. 

Noone knows the reason for this apart from the aforesaid attractiveness of distant wisdom., since they can't understand a word she says or, more usually screams at them.  Many a bald young monk returns to his high fastness to meditate on the strange mantra  vouchsafed to him, such as "Push off, You!" and "If I see one more of you little orange devils peering in at me he'll feel the edge of my hand, all right?" and " Why are you buggers all coming around here staring at my feet?" 

They have even developed a special branch of martial arts based on their experiences, where they shout incomprehensibly at one another and then hit their opponent with a broom."

Terry Pratchett "Witches Abroad"

Tina's brother, Rich Knuth, died October 6th, 1986 at the age of 20, in a motorcycle accident.  There was alcohol in his system.  Please, Please don't drink and drive.

For Rich

"Wish You Were Here"

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell?
Blue skies from pain?
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
So do you think we can change
Everybody that hates
Before it's too late?
So proud to be free
But who can we blame?
Don't be ashamed
Do you think we can change?
How I wish
How I wish you were here
We're a world of lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here
We don't need
Need anymore pain
We just need to remain on the very same page
So much to gain
No more losing a friend
Losing ourselves
We just need your help
So glad your here