Douglas AdamsThe 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 f… ▶361ReflectionThoughtTime
Douglas AdamsA learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. ✨ Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiki… ▶372LifeTime
Douglas AdamsHe was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions — not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simpl… ▶372LifeThoughtTime
Douglas AdamsWho is this god person anyway? ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). Mostly Harmless, p.181, Pan Macmillan372Love
Douglas AdamsObviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him. ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, p.12, Pan Macmillan351Hope
Douglas AdamsArthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press t… ▶373Politics
Douglas AdamsI begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I could be in serious trouble and so could she… ▶373Thought
Douglas AdamsA life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. ✨ Douglas Adams (2014). The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, p.30, Simon an… ▶351LifeSadnessTime
Douglas AdamsRather 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. … ▶362Time
Douglas AdamsHe would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up a small yellow fish and offering to pu… ▶373Reading
Douglas AdamsThe Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not … ▶362HumanityLovePolitics
Douglas AdamsThere are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. ✨ Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, p.108… ▶373Time
Douglas AdamsThe Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. ✨ Douglas Adams (2010). The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, p.223, Del Rey362Truth
Douglas AdamsI don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). Life, the Universe and Everything, p.65, Pan Macmillan373Life
Douglas AdamsI may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ✨ Douglas Adams (2016). Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk… ▶373ThoughtTime
Douglas Adams...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure. ✨ Douglas Adams (2012). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts, p.117, Pan Macmillan… ▶363Love
Douglas AdamsZaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid hims… ▶341Hope
Douglas AdamsHe learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit … ▶363Politics
Douglas AdamsThere was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, p.131, Pan Macmillan352Thought
Douglas AdamsWhen the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not… ▶363Time
Douglas AdamsI am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. ✨… ▶352Reading
Douglas AdamsMr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the … ▶364HumanityLife
Douglas AdamsTheir minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do. 364Thought
Douglas AdamsThe Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). The Re… ▶342HumanityLifeTruth
Douglas AdamsHaving not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around. ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). So Long, and Thanks for All… ▶375Time
Douglas AdamsJust supposing, he said, just supposing --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--that there was some extraordinary way in which you were… ▶364ThoughtTime
Douglas AdamsHe turned slowly like a fridge door opening. ✨ Douglas Adams (2016). Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Da… ▶353Time
Douglas AdamsThe system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was jus… ▶364LifeReadingTime
Douglas AdamsI find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.365Time
Douglas AdamsWhat is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?376Philosophy
