The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and… — 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
One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a… — 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
Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Richard continued, “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo? — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. — 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