Prompt 23: Terry Pratchett
If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH", the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
Prompt 23: Terry Pratchett
I’ve been told that some of the community followers do better coming up with story ideas from text prompts rather than just images, so I thought I would oblige.
Because of a prompt rosa_acicularis left over at the TTU ficathon, I went searching for the source of a fascinating quote, and in doing so, I stumbled across an entire array of book quotes that would make some highly amusing fanfiction prompts. I simply couldn’t resist the temptation. Be warned, this is likely not the end of Terry Pratchett quotes, but they will be spaced out with other types of prompts.
Do remember, there is no deadline for prompts. You may combine as many as you like. All we ask is that you have fun, and post links to your Doctor/Rose stories here at never_ever_will, so we can all enjoy them.
- If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.
- History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.
- It wasn't blood in general he couldn't stand the sight of, it was just his blood in particular that was so upsetting.
- Never enter an arsekicking contest with a porcupine.
- The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find...
- Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.
- Never trust a species that grins all the time. It's up to something.
- Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
- The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.
- Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.
- A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read
- 'Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.'
- No-one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged.
- No naked little men sat on the summit dispensing wisdom, because the first thing the truly wise man works out is that sitting around on mountaintops gives you not only haemorrhoids but frostbitten haemorrhoids.
- "We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience"
"But the point is... the point is... the point is we've not been experienced for a lot longer than you." - The only way housework could be done in this place was with a shovel or, for preference, a match.
- Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
- Winners never talk about glorious victories. That's because they're the ones who see what the battlefield looks like afterward. It's only the losers who have glorious victories.
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