Douglas Adams Quotes

• The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

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  Topics in Humor
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  Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Simple, Print, Books

• He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Humor, Life, Religion

• This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Humor

• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Time, Philosophy

• My capacity for happiness,” he added, “you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Humor

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

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Humor

• Life is wasted on the living.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Wasted, Living

• The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Life

• All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Life

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

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Humor

• Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Humor

• A learning experience is one of those things that says, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Experience, Life

• Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Art, Humor

• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Humor
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  You may not have gone where you intended to go, but you’ll end up where you need to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Intended

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

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing
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  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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

Douglas Adams (63)

Birth:	11th March, 1952
Death:	11th May, 2001
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Humorist, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter

About

Douglas Noel Adams was born in Cambridge, England. He was an English novelist, screenwriter, humorist, and playwright. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff, The Deeper Meaning of Liff, and Last Chance to See.

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