Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.” — 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
“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
Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy… — 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
“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
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 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
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Hey,” he said, “I thought you said you didn’t want to shoot us!” and ducked again. They waited. After a moment a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice,… — 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
“The nothingth of a second for which the hole existed reverberated backwards and forwards through time in a most improbable fashion. Somewhere… — 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
“They looked at each other for a moment. The moment became a longer moment, and suddenly it was a very long moment,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“But that can't work, can it?" Said Richard. "If we do that, then this won't have happened. Don't we generate all sorts… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If he was asked at this moment where he would like to be he would probably have said he would like to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a… — 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