Douglas Adams Quotes - Page 6

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

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.

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

Certamente era um homem que possuía muitas qualidades, mesmo que fossem quase todas ruins.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

It was his subconscious which told him this-that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.