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Day Quotes by Douglas Adams
- The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem…
- I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good…
- I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
- I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
- Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door…
- Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?" ... “Good evening,” it lowed and…
- One day old Thrashbarg said that Almighty Bob had declared that he, Thrashbarg, was to have first pick of the sandwiches. The villagers asked him…
- The waiter approached. 'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?' 'Huh?' said…
- The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor…
- It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for…
- In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when…
- I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
- Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he…
- It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity…
- What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
- It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand,…
- The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong