People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The film project has been “twenty years of constipation,” and he likens the Hollywood process to “trying to grill a steak by… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Hollywood process is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven… — 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