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- If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it…
- He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he…
- One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take…
- I have detected disturbances in the wash.' 'The wash?' 'The space-time wash.' 'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we…
- Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside,…
- What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?
- Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented…
- He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he…
- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much…
- It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of…
- Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the…
- Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they…
- What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That…
- Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside,…
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- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball
- I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for. — Jeff Bridges
- Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her… — Julie Burchill
- At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and… — C.S. Lewis
- I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and… — C.S. Lewis