Terry Pratchett Quotes

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses." "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

[On the] question of why we might want to look at images even more than the real thing: I think there is some quality when you look at an image of, not only seeing this thing, whether it's the horse or the sky, but you are seeing somebody point at it and say, Look!

You could be jealous of a girl who's not as pretty as you, but you just have that feeling that she's going to take your dude, and you might be right. Or you might be jealous of somebody who's not as good at their job as you, but you have this feeling that she's got that something extra that's going to help her move ahead. Whatever it is, you might have that weird feeling, and you might be right.

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

I see all of them. All the colors.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.