Douglas Adams citations (332 citations, Page 7)

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Contexte: The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.

“The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”

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Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“It was his subconscious which told him this — that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 17

“I don't go to mythical places with strange men.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n.
One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.”

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Douglas Adams livre The Meaning of Liff

Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff

“Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”

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Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Variante: You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”

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“A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.”

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Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

“And so the Universe ended.”

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Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”

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Douglas Adams livre So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Rather 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.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“… and the Universe,… will explode later for your pleasure.”

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Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The 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 facts had been strenuously bent to fit.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.”

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Douglas Adams livre Un cheval dans la salle de bains

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”

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Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Beauty doesn't have to beanything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto?”

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Douglas Adams livre The Salmon of Doubt

Source: The Salmon of Doubt

“We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Variante: and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy