Douglas Adams Quotes
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Douglas Adams Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.
Life ... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.
It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?
In so far as it is possible for a green blur to arch its eyebrows disdainfully, this is what the green blur now did.
This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be the perfect time to disembark.
The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what "accident" means.
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.
This is not her story. But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences.
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
then sat down to do what every galactic hitchhiker ends up spending most of his time doing. They waited for a flying saucer to come by.
Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.
There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.
There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence. The
The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.
Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.
How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.
The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.
Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.
Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?
He had no idea what he was in for, but he knew that he hadn't liked anything that had happened so far and didn't think things were likely to change.
SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom
And if you want to pop off for a quick one yourself later on," said Ford, "we can always cover for you in return.
It must be said, some success. For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough.
That sounds perfectly reasonable ... he said in a reassuring tone of voice, wondering who he was trying to reassure.
Goosnargh, said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.
It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.