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Years Quotes by Douglas Adams
- I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
- 2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for…
- For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and…
- Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light…
- I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill…
- 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…
- For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two -…
- Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point…
- 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…
- 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…
- The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life…
- The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million…
- The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did…
- Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.
- There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in…
- The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally…
- The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz