Quotes from Douglas Adams

Zaman bir yan?lsamad?r.

Why am I here? What's my purpose in life?

Even the most seasoned star tramp can't help but shiver at the spectacular drama of a sunrise seen from space

If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

If you'd call it a robot," muttered Arthur. "It's more a sort of electronic sulking machine.

oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It's a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well, I suppose I'd better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let's call it my stomach.

And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent," said the old man, sternly.

But she was finding it increasingly easy to believe that God, if there was a God, and if it was remotely possible that any godlike being who could order the disposition of particles at the creation of the Universe would also be interested in directing traffic on the M4, did not want her to fly to Norway either.

Then why did you ask me?' it screamed. 'I just wanted something to talk to,' said Marvin.

He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

The first people to pour in were the missionaries: Catholics who arrived to teach the native populace that the Protestants were wrong and Protestants who came to teach that the Catholics were wrong. The only thing the Protestants and Catholics agreed about was that the natives had been wrong for two thousand years.

Encyclopedia Galáctica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colorless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms. The Hitchhiker's

Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.

What I lost, I think, was a whole other life." "Everybody does that. Every moment of every day. Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do. Sounds like you noticed one.

That is really amazing. That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it.

Ford,' he said, 'there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another.

I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation. He felt on the sudden like a cramped and zoo-born animal who wakes one morning to find the door to his cage hanging quietly open and the savanna stretching gray and pink to the distant rising sun, while all around new sounds are waking.

He dreamed at one point in his slumbers of New York. In his dreams he was walking late at night along the East Side, beside the river which had become so extravagantly polluted that new life forms were now emerging from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting rights.

Olaylar?n her zaman göründüÄŸü gibi olmad??? önemli ve yayg?n bir gerçektir.

He had run out of patience and pencils and was feeling very hungry.

Coisas terríveis, incompreensíveis – gritou –, coisas que deixariam qualquer homem louco! Olhou para eles assustado. – Ou, no meu caso – acrescentou –, meio louco. Sou um jornalista.