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Trying Quotes by Douglas Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be…
- The Hollywood process is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.
- If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
- 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…
- 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.
- The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just…
- 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 watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There…
- We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
- 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…
- Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes.…
- The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck…
- Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
- Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold