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Douglas Adams Quotes - Page 19

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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

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

Reading, Watches, Fiction

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

Years, Lasts, Shock

"Biography/Personal Quotes". BBC Online chat, www.imdb.com. November 8, 2000.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

Depression, Thinking, Feelings

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.

Talking, Ignorant, Zoologist

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.10, Ballantine Books

Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?

Book, Doe, Cinema

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future" (BBC Radio 4) with Douglas Adams, 2001.

So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance.

Islands, Would Be, Als

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.184, Ballantine Books

One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive.

Party, Mathematical Equations, Numbers

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.427, Del Rey

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

Distance, Simple, Imagination

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

Fabulous, Evening, Apocalypse

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.119, Pan Macmillan

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

Ears, Sticks, Language

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.68, Del Rey

What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

Airports, Two, Atheism

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ch. 6 (1988)

Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing

Writing, Cutting, Technology

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.11, Del Rey

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...

Blood, Computer, Counting

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

Assumption, Knows

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

Believe, Views, Periods

The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

Airports, People, Atheism

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

Way, Ifs, Corridors

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.453, Del Rey

My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Brother, Fall, Order

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.110, Del Rey

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

Computer, Programming, Spending

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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?

Talking, Space, Laundromats

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

Horse, Bored, Monk

Douglas Adams (1991). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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.

Cute, Girl, Sarcastic

Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?

Zaphod Beeblebrox

The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

Animal, Borders, Benefits

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.76, Ballantine Books

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

Book, Pennies, Computer

Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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