One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You are very tall or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty foot well, are you all right?
Douglas Adams
Related One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about be... PETER CAPALDI As a people, Serbians are very tall, and we have olive skin and dark hair, which can look very nice.... ANA IVANOVIC I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why s... JANE AUSTEN Some people are very nice, until you get to meet them BEN OAK At that moment the dull sound of a rumbling crash from outside filtered through the low murmur of th... DOUGLAS ADAMS What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans not... ROBERT KRULWICH ‘Cause, "Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that."Cake or deat... EDDIE IZZARD You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no... NEWT GINGRICH All the teams are very, very good. You can't make too much of the seeds or anything else. You have t... JOANNE P. MCCALLIE He had a pleasant personality, was a very good kid, and was a very good athlete. You didn't have to ... BOB WARREN If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating par... BRIAN DENNEHY Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass undergr... RALPH WALDO EMERSON In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, m... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT She was very well liked. She was one of the most exciting players we've had. A very nice kid, fun to... DAVE WEBER If you're sort of interested in politics but sort of upset about contemporary politics, it's... WHIT STILLMAN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all differen... RON CHERNOW Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselv... J.K. ROWLING This is a very moving and emotional experience. It is one you can't talk about or describe. You have... ANDI MELENDEZ It's not about being thin, it's about being healthy. And when you are a child you like to ea... DIONNE BROMFIELD He's very well. He did a very nice piece of work. The better the ground, the better chance he will h... COLM MURPHY I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closi... DANIEL RADCLIFFE A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... JON RONSON The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or ver... BRENDA UELAND You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a bl... GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to... STEVIE NICKS You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage your... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ‘Cause, "Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that. "Cake or dea... EDDIE IZZARD American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have... AUGUST WILSON It makes me very angry that in a moment of tragedy, when you're trying to make sure all the humans a... JIM RICE But one day, you will be faced with a choice, as we all are. One day you will have to choose between... SAMANTHA SHANNON We are very pleased with the results. Their success was down to a lot of hard work by pupils and sta... ANDREW GORDON It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regula... CAMPBELL NEWMAN From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles... JONES VERY The simplest conception of the origin and plan of the Iliad must, we think, prove the most correct. ... JONES VERY As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural... JONES VERY We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on wh... JONES VERY Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must b... JONES VERY Everyone can be a leader irrespective of their age, race, creed, nationality or political affiliatio... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film an... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Demon pox, oh, demon pox, Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of t... CASSANDRA CLARE Demon pox, oh demon pox Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town<... CASSANDRA CLARE We are very, very lucky, we have nice dirt and the riders seem to like it. TOM AHOLA Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand. LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON I think what happens when there's a scandal in your life, the things you depended on are taken a... KIMBERLY QUINN I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just... JOHN FOWLES If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them. If you have a harem of 40 w... WARREN BUFFETT You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robins... ATO ESSANDOH The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. ROBERT DE NIRO I guess there's more to team pursuit than having one superstar on the team like [American] Chad Hedr... ARNE DANKERS The tall grass in the area, [the body] was down in with some water, but not totally covered with it.... SGT. PAUL PIOTROWSKI A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you wri... MICK JAGGER I was with one of my girlfriends, and one of her friends is (Voigt's) goddaughter, and I had no idea... THOMAS MCDANIEL Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a ... ZOLA BUDD They worked very well together. They are some of the hardest working kids I have ever had. GREG DIERKS When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. S... TIMOTHY WEST When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day. W. BRUCE CAMERON Oh, Elna, how can you be with someone who loves you in spite of the very best things about you? ELNA BAKER What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA This is what I've always dreamed about. I feel very comfortable out there. Things are going very wel... IAN WHITE I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... MARK RUFFALO You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen ... CHARLES AUSTIN BEARD Some things are very dear to me --/ Such things as flowers bathed by rain/ Or patterns traced upon t... GWENDOLYN BENNETT You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the... ANTHONY ROBBINS Food trends don't just drive the obvious things, like cupcakes or cronuts, but something as elem... DAVID SAX The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must kn... RUDY GIULIANI Very often when you look at the moon, you see only a part of it, but you know there is a much larger... SOURCE UNKNOWN All right," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a... DOUGLAS ADAMS The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work an... J. K. ROWLING Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very i... KATRINA KAIF Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk ab... MARY ROACH Death is inevitable, and, after about the age of 75 or so, you begin to care about people in a certa... JANE SMITH There is something really amazing about you.. Your unique ideas and thoughts that you bring to this ... RACHEL HAMILTON During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one ... MARIE CURIE Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one ... JOHN MCWHORTER Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the ... JIMMY CARTER Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear re... KATE DICAMILLO Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eig... ANNIE LENNOX Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family... LEMONY SNICKET Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being ... GAIL COLLINS The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things a... DANA PERINO It becomes very, very, very, very tempting to look ahead, and as a matter of fact I am doing that ri... FREDDY ADU It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to... LEWIS CARROLL And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear. HENRY DAVID THOREAU All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear HENRY DAVID THOREAU If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which... KHUSHWANT SINGH I feel I've prepared as well as I possibly can. The thing about Miami's defense, they are very aggre... DREW WEATHERFORD You don't want to be too worried about the marketplace or what's commercial, or what's on TV or in t... ADAM HOROWITZ Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever d... JIMMY WALES It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts o... ELIZABETH ASTON
More Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. DOUGLAS ADAMS We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and wh... DOUGLAS ADAMS This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. DOUGLAS ADAMS Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a... DOUGLAS ADAMS Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet... DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been wid... DOUGLAS ADAMS I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. DOUGLAS ADAMS I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took... DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is bunk. DOUGLAS ADAMS For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. DOUGLAS ADAMS Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr... DOUGLAS ADAMS If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? DOUGLAS ADAMS If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that w... DOUGLAS ADAMS My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they freq... DOUGLAS ADAMS In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. DOUGLAS ADAMS Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed o... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major ... DOUGLAS ADAMS We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! DOUGLAS ADAMS The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer... DOUGLAS ADAMS Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support. DOUGLAS ADAMS Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. DOUGLAS ADAMS and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. DOUGLAS ADAMS The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people... DOUGLAS ADAMS I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. DOUGLAS ADAMS I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tel... DOUGLAS ADAMS I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. DOUGLAS ADAMS It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ... DOUGLAS ADAMS The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. DOUGLAS ADAMS For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins... DOUGLAS ADAMS I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. DOUGLAS ADAMS If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is... DOUGLAS ADAMS Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people... DOUGLAS ADAMS In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from... DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't Panic. DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you m... DOUGLAS ADAMS Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may ... DOUGLAS ADAMS The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet g... DOUGLAS ADAMS The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea ... DOUGLAS ADAMS You live and learn. At any rate, you live. DOUGLAS ADAMS Reality is frequently inaccurate. DOUGLAS ADAMS He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe... DOUGLAS ADAMS Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies a... DOUGLAS ADAMS Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have... DOUGLAS ADAMS I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford DOUGLAS ADAMS The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which ar... DOUGLAS ADAMS Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple." "Ah, well, I'm... DOUGLAS ADAMS After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the she... DOUGLAS ADAMS Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what... DOUGLAS ADAMS A cup of tea would restore my normality." [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenpla... DOUGLAS ADAMS There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened. DOUGLAS ADAMS A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense fr... DOUGLAS ADAMS So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it DOUGLAS ADAMS It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefo... DOUGLAS ADAMS For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins... DOUGLAS ADAMS The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each ... DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been wid... DOUGLAS ADAMS There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and w... DOUGLAS ADAMS One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically remove... 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 What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to fin... DOUGLAS ADAMS Life...is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy , and has a few pips in it, and some folks have... DOUGLAS ADAMS Come on, insisted Zaphod, I've found a way in. In? said Arthur in horror. Into the interior of... DOUGLAS ADAMS Life is wasted on the living. DOUGLAS ADAMS People will then often say, But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me,... DOUGLAS ADAMS He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction invol... DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of
the Western Spiral arm of the Galax... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS Any belief worth having must survive doubt DOUGLAS ADAMS I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. DOUGLAS ADAMS There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Univers... DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] Forty-two. DOUGLAS ADAMS Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your ... DOUGLAS ADAMS A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to under... DOUGLAS ADAMS Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going ... DOUGLAS ADAMS It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. DOUGLAS ADAMS Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense. DOUGLAS ADAMS The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of ... DOUGLAS ADAMS I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer DOUGLAS ADAMS Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of DOUGLAS ADAMS Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were o... DOUGLAS ADAMS All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported... DOUGLAS ADAMS This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were un... DOUGLAS ADAMS It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear DOUGLAS ADAMS Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, a... DOUGLAS ADAMS Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. DOUGLAS ADAMS It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards... DOUGLAS ADAMS Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject th... DOUGLAS ADAMS When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juv... DOUGLAS ADAMS There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more acc... DOUGLAS ADAMS It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the... DOUGLAS ADAMS Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before t... DOUGLAS ADAMS Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the comp... DOUGLAS ADAMS He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction i... DOUGLAS ADAMS Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairi... DOUGLAS ADAMS To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that ... DOUGLAS ADAMS We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore ... DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely ... DOUGLAS ADAMS A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underes... DOUGLAS ADAMS He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. DOUGLAS ADAMS It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask ... DOUGLAS ADAMS I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they... DOUGLAS ADAMS We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time wh... DOUGLAS ADAMS As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol servic... DOUGLAS ADAMS Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purpo... DOUGLAS ADAMS As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight... DOUGLAS ADAMS I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide... DOUGLAS ADAMS Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ar... DOUGLAS ADAMS Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Ca... DOUGLAS ADAMS The trouble with most forms of transport, he thought, is basically one of them not being worth all t... DOUGLAS ADAMS The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning... DOUGLAS ADAMS Sunlight played along the River Cam. People in punts happily shouted at each other to fuck off. Thin... DOUGLAS ADAMS The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not t... DOUGLAS ADAMS He turned slowly like a fridge door opening. DOUGLAS ADAMS There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. DOUGLAS ADAMS Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. DOUGLAS ADAMS Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of thin... DOUGLAS ADAMS He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry. DOUGLAS ADAMS High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse. DOUGLAS ADAMS The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last f... DOUGLAS ADAMS The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on... DOUGLAS ADAMS Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish ... DOUGLAS ADAMS She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at wh... DOUGLAS ADAMS Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and ... DOUGLAS ADAMS The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis. DOUGLAS ADAMS What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain i... DOUGLAS ADAMS In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death... DOUGLAS ADAMS That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds ea... DOUGLAS ADAMS If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, woul... DOUGLAS ADAMS Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!" "The what?"... DOUGLAS ADAMS It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I co... DOUGLAS ADAMS It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion ... DOUGLAS ADAMS The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monk... DOUGLAS ADAMS The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone. DOUGLAS ADAMS If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however... DOUGLAS ADAMS The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best wa... DOUGLAS ADAMS Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable its... DOUGLAS ADAMS Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. DOUGLAS ADAMS A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the s... DOUGLAS ADAMS First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with AS... DOUGLAS ADAMS We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. DOUGLAS ADAMS The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind... DOUGLAS ADAMS The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42! DOUGLAS ADAMS The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. DOUGLAS ADAMS Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those s... DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you ... DOUGLAS ADAMS I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. ... DOUGLAS ADAMS I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. DOUGLAS ADAMS Life? Don't talk to me about life! DOUGLAS ADAMS The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angr... DOUGLAS ADAMS The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. DOUGLAS ADAMS The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss DOUGLAS ADAMS Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Az... DOUGLAS ADAMS Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? DOUGLAS ADAMS In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lo... DOUGLAS ADAMS Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy... DOUGLAS ADAMS The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a dou... DOUGLAS ADAMS O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to... DOUGLAS ADAMS Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...... DOUGLAS ADAMS The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two. DOUGLAS ADAMS The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, though... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ... DOUGLAS ADAMS The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen... DOUGLAS ADAMS Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have... DOUGLAS ADAMS It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and... DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was... DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when youre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of... DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may... DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc... DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola DOUGLAS ADAMS Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here. DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a... DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h... DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics... DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house. DOUGLAS ADAMS