“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”
Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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Douglas Adams317
English writer and humorist 1952–2001Related quotes
Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist
Dell, Diana. Memorable Quotations: Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past, p. 54 http://books.google.com/books?id=IhgDPQvUM6YC&pg=PA54. iUniverse, 2000. ISBN 0595165958 <br class="br">Attributed
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921–1999) American physicist
as quoted by [Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, Biographical Memoirs V.83, National Academies Press, 2003, 0-309-08699-X, 201]
“You're truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?”
Octavia E. Butler book Bloodchild and Other Stories
The Book of Martha
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
William H. Rehnquist (1924–2005) Chief Justice of the United States
Quoted in Time magazine (13 June 1988).
Books, articles, and speeches
“First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail”
Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
“The first time flee; the second time, flee; and the third, become like a sword.”
Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father
Saying 140
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951) physicist
As quoted in: J.Muller, Physical Chemistry in Depth (Springer Science & Business Media, 1992), p. 1. No primary source is given in that book.
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