Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
moving challenges finding-yourself
What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.
letters way answers
Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.
cute girl sarcastic
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
food yellow people
Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow 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.
courage strong wings
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
believe simple not-sure
Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
art lying humor
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.
mean deep-thought answers
Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
snakes people drs
Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)
talking space laundromats
I have detected disturbances in the wash.' 'The wash?' 'The space-time wash.' 'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?' 'Eddies in the space-time continuum.' 'Ah...is he. Is he.' 'What?' 'Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?
running mean exercise
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.
democracies-have long criminals
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
mind possibility arthur-dent
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
moving-forward moving past
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.