I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Two places away to the left was the don who had been Richard’s Director of Studies in English, who showed no signs… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just got space-sickness or religion.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“What are you after?" ... "Well," said Zaphod airily, "It's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The phone wavered in Richard's hand. He was holding it about half an inch away from his ear anyway because it seemed… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Now see here, Guy,” said the voice, “you’re not dealing with any dumb two-bit trigger pumping morons with low hair-lines, little piggy… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“What did you say, Arthur?" "I said, how the hell did you get here?" "I was a row of dots flowing randomly… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There was a sort of gallery structure in the roof space which held a bed and also a bathroom which you could… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“She was of course the last person to judge somebody by the color of their skin - or if not absolutely the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“And what's happened to the Earth?" "Ah. It's been demolished." "Has is," said Arthur levelly. "Yes. It just boiled away into space."… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Share and Enjoy' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Mr Cjelli, nice to see you back, sir. Sorry you had a spot of bother, hope that's all behind you now." "Indeed,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered." — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image