Quotes by Douglas Adams

About Douglas Adams:

Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Douglas Adams

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

Douglas Adams

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Douglas Adams
Love quotes by Douglas Adams, Funny quotes by Douglas Adams, UberQuotes

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

Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

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

Douglas Adams

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Douglas Adams

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

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

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

Douglas Adams

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Douglas Adams

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Douglas Adams

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Douglas Adams

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Douglas Adams

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Douglas Adams

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Douglas Adams

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Douglas Adams

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Douglas Adams

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Douglas Adams

Author Bio

  • NameDouglas Adams
  • DescriptionEnglish writer and humorist
  • AliasesDouglas Noël Adams; Douglas Noel Adams
  • BornMarch 11, 1952
  • DiedMay 11, 2001
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Novelist; Children's Writer; Science Fiction Writer; Humorist; Playwright
  • WorksThe Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Pentalogy; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency