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Up Quotes by Douglas Adams
- I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
- Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a…
- Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself…
- 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…
- Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public,…
- A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite…
- The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t…
- Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to…
- Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
- I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is…
- Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit…
- 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…
- A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next.…
- 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…
- He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone…
- He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two…
- If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond…
- 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…
- Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels…
More Up Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Beautician: the official occupation of the 'I wear too much make-up fat girl'. — Nikhil Saluja
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash