Quotes by Douglas Adams, page 2

Douglas Adams - english Writer

Was born on 11 mar 1952.
Died on 11 may 2001, at 49 years old.

Origin country: United Kingdom

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.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Quote by Douglas Adams about order

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

Quote by Douglas Adams about beginning, bad luck, bad, people

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Quote by Douglas Adams about garden, faith

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

Quote by Douglas Adams about mistake, problems

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.

Quote by Douglas Adams about thinking, mind

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.

Quote by Douglas Adams about rules, people

Life is wasted on the living.

Quote by Douglas Adams about waste, life

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Quote by Douglas Adams about life

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

Quote by Douglas Adams about wealth, man, nothing

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

Quote by Douglas Adams about univers, stores, mind, faith

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.

Quote by Douglas Adams about meetings, pleasure, life

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.

Quote by Douglas Adams about difficulties, conversation

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Quote by Douglas Adams about reality

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

Quote by Douglas Adams about integrity, impossible

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

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.

Quote by Douglas Adams about bad, things, impossible

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

Quote by Douglas Adams about thinking, mind

The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole...

Quote by Douglas Adams about end, haven, moment, people

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

Quote by Douglas Adams about sky