Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
light witness visible
The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.
thinking doe hitchhiking
Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
two bags taught
If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.
glad
I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.
ends needed
I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
reading watches fiction
I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed
voice people pieces
Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.
eyebrows confusion littles
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
sea two sun
Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.
two long interesting
And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.
growing-up mean thinking
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.
throat clear stillness
In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.
couple gin-and-tonic week
and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
breathing way pardon
Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.