Terry Pratchett Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015
Birthday: April 28
Death: March 12
Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.
source: Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.101, Random House
topic: Mean, Tourists, Use, Quaint, Rincewind
