Douglas Adams Quotes — Page 28

Writer, Humorist

Funny

“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 would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”

Men Feelings Perfectly Normal

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Douglas Adams

Writer, Humorist

Philosophical

“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”

Nice Brain Exercise

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Funny

“‎If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost.”

Needs Hands Helping

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Douglas Adams

Writer, Humorist

“See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”

Thinking Firsts Tests

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Douglas Adams

Writer, Humorist

“Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.”

Believe Simple Not Sure

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Douglas Adams

Writer, Humorist

“There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.”

Funny Interesting Humorous

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Nostalgic

“Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.”

Pleasant Nostalgic Yearning

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Funny

“The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.”

Life Bird Hug

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Funny

“He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it.”

Air Wind Wings

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Funny

“"Would you like to see the menu?" he said. "Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?" [...] "Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?"”

May Body Evening

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Funny

“My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”

Looks Car Strategy

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Philosophical

“Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.”

Heart Mind Fundamentals

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