Quotes of Douglas Adams - somelinesforyou

“ The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ I love deadlines, I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Beauty doesn’t have to be about anything. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don’t expect to see. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ It is a well. known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Life is wasted on the living. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! ”

- Douglas Adams

“ All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangeyyellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced. ”

- Douglas Adams
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28