Douglas Adams Quotes

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Douglas Adams Quotes

All Funny Philosophical Spiritual Sad Wise 578 quotes · page 27 of 49

Douglas Adams

Writer, Humorist

Funny

“I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!”

Want Heaven Headache

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Douglas Adams

Writer, Humorist

Spiritual

“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”

Firsts Said First Time

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Happy

“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.”

Computer Programming

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Philosophical

“How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?”

Fun Knows

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Funny

“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 sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?”

Needs Names Hey

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Funny

“Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.”

Thinking Real Space

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Funny

“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.”

People Bypass Finding Your Path

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Spiritual

“Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.”

Funny Prayer Knowing

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Wise

“'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'”

Mad Brilliant Statistics

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Funny

“Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.”

Alcohol Sugar Liquid

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Funny

“How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.”

Military Passing Arthur

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Wise

“There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.”

Looks Simple Answers

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