They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that… — 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
“These muddles were as nothing to the ones which historians had to try and unravel once time trouble was discovered and battles… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You have a time machine and you use it for... watching television?" "Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Wainwright’s Fruit Emporium. Mr Wainwright is not able to take calls at this time since he is not right in the head… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There are limitless futures stretching out in every direction from this moment—and from this moment and from this. Billions of them, bifurcating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In the years since then, Richard had run into Dirk from time to time and had usually been greeted with that kind… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved… — 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
“Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“We already have the Wooden Pillar, the Steel Pillar and the Plastic Pillar. In a moment we will have the Golden Bail…'… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“For all my rational Western intellect and education, I was for the moment overwhelmed by a primitive sense of living in a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In the past the whales had been able to sing to each other across whole oceans, even from one ocean to another… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy with them,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Well, sir, I think it's just as well that they are being phased out of the war effort, and that we are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“After a moment or two a man in brown crimplene looked in at us, did not at all like the look of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“No? How about now? Am I going backwards?' For once the bird was perfectly still and steady. 'No,' said Random. 'Well I… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“during this century (the twentieth) we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever. — 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
![“It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the…” quote by Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/32b/douglas-adams-122_centre_it-takes-a-long-time-before-we-really-ge_1508473.jpg)
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