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Thing Quotes by Douglas Adams
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot…
- The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for…
- And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide…
- It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob…
- A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
- There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if…
- Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that…
- Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a…
- If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of…
- But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If…
- If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
- Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people…
- To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is…
- In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of…
- 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…
- 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…
- I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
- The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty…
- And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly…
- Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he…
More Thing Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach