“One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Answer to the Great Question Of...Life, the Universe and Everything...[is] Forty-two. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“For instance, in one corner of the Eastern Galactic Arm lies the large forest planet Oglaroon, the entire “intelligent” population of which… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Listen, you machine,” he said, “you claim you can synthesize any drink in existence, so why do you keep giving me the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I am intended to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Mrs E. Kapelsen of Boston, Massachusetts was an elderly lady, indeed, she felt her life was nearly at an end. She had… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The gorillas were not the animals we had come to Zaire to look for. It is very hard, however, to come all… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The first thing they saw on leaving the elevator was a long concrete wall with over fifty doors in it offering lavatory… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“They believe in “peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms”.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Trilllian had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. — 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