Quotes by Douglas Adams

About Douglas Adams:

Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist.
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Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

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The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.

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In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has si...

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Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that t...

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An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival has never reached anything like the pitch that it does on the mainland. Species are only as tough as they need to be, life is much quieter and more sett...

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But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.

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In the past the whales had been able to sing to each other across whole oceans, even from one ocean to another because sound travels such huge distances underwater. But now, again because of the way in which sound travels, there is no part of the oce...

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

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

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If they were going to be like that, then I just wished they hadn't actually been German. It was too easy. Too obvious. It was like coming across an Irishman who actually was stupid, a mother-in-law who actually was fat, or an American businessman who...

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

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The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

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And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.

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Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, ...

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There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

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A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

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Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

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People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

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It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

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Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

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I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe in God, or at least not in the one we’ve invented for ourselves in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and c...

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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