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World Quotes by Douglas Adams
- Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.
- Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself…
- Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
- 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…
- First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it…
- It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.…
- 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…
- And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore…
- And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to…
- 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…
- All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one…
- The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to…
- The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was…
- Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.
- This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set…
- David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and…
- 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…
- And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The…
- So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be…
- He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
- Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of…
- She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior…
- The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
- 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…
- There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — 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
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach