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  • Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A.

    War   Men   Hands  
    Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.15, Harper Collins
  • All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

    Queens   Car   Albums  
    Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.16, Harper Collins
  • If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

    FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 28, 2015
  • Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

    People   Evil   Tragedy  
    Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins
  • 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 (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House
  • People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

    Sky   People   Bird  
    FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Nov 30, 2016
  • I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

    "Good Omens". Book By Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, 1990.
  • Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

    "I Shall Wear Midnight". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 2010.
  • Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.

    Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.38, Harper Collins
  • Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

    Women   Book   Naked  
    "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.
  • His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.

    Parent   Age   Hints  
  • But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

    Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK
  • God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, ie., everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

    Moving   Dark   Player  
    "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, 1990.
  • CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman.

    Vegetables   Two   Oil  
  • Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

    Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.38, Harper Collins
  • Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

  • She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel

  • Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

  • An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

    Fall   Angel   Good Omens  
    Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.8, Harper Collins
  • The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly.

    Men   Two   Ducks  
  • He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.

    Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.16, Harper Collins
  • Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

    "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Friday)". Book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.
  • She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

    Beautiful   Fire   Way  
    "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.
  • The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.

    Kraken   Dinner   Sushi  
  • Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

    Science   Drug   Too Much  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.12, Random House
  • One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.

  • Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

    "Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - fun, with footnotes" by Justine Jordan, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2015.
  • It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

    Mother   Cat   Journey  
    Selma Lagerlöf (1936). “Mårbacka”
  • And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.

    Heart   Guitar   Lynching  
    Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.29, Harper Collins
  • She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

    "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Wednesday)". Book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.
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