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Away Quotes by Douglas Adams
- The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.
- "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel…
- Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
- The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear…
- I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.
- There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you…
- Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain…
- Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser,…
- 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 and…
- He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to…
- He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in…
- There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in…
- When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius