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Douglas Adams Quotes
«The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
«American Atheists: What message would you like to send to your Atheist fans?Douglas Adams: Hello! How are you?»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
«I think the idea of art kills creativity.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
«One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
«Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
«It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
«Besides the pastor, there were about five people who had access to the safe, ... Those people have been eliminated as suspects through the investigative process.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
«It's easier to say that I am a radical Atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
«Dave is one of my favorite sources of information and opinion on the Web. His opinions are passionately held, well-informed, intelligent, argumentative, and quite often wrong.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)