People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.

I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger - chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle, tomato sauce... It is common knowledge in my family that I can't tell the difference between a veggie burger and a meat one, because the ratio of burger to pickles is so high.

London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all...

Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

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.

Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor replies, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?

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.

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.