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Quotes About Time

The moment became a longer moment, and suddenly it was a very long moment, so long one could hardly tell where all the time was coming from.
~ Douglas Adams
I love deadlines," he said once. "I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.")
~ Douglas Adams
So a lot of history is now gone for ever. The Campaign for Real Timers claim that just as easy travel eroded the differences between one country and another, and between one world and another, so time travel is now eroding the differences between one age and another. 'The past,' they say, 'is now truly like a foreign country. They do things exactly the same there.
~ Douglas Adams
Zaman bir yan?lsamad?r.
~ Douglas Adams
B?rak geçmiÅŸ kendi kendine kals?n ve yaÅŸad???n an geleceÄŸe doÄŸru ilerlesin diye düÅŸünüyordu.
~ Douglas Adams
Seen from the outside, which it never is, the Restaurant resembles a giant glittering starfish beached on a forgotten rock. Each of its arms house the bars, the kitchens, the force-field generators which protect the entire structure and the decayed hunk of planet on which it sits, and the Time Turbines which slowly rock the whole affair backward and forward across the crucial moment.
~ Douglas Adams
Die Zeit ist eine Illusion. Die Mittagszeit erst recht.
~ Douglas Adams
Howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl gargle gargle howl gargle gargle gargle howl slurrp uuuurgh should have a good time. Message repeats.
~ Douglas Adams
The room was much as Slartibartfast had described it. In seven and a half million years it had been well looked after and cleaned regularly every century or so. The ultramahogany desk was worn at the edges, the carpet a little faded now, but the large computer terminal sat in sparkling glory on the desk's leather top, as bright as if it had been constructed yesterday.
~ Douglas Adams
Era tempo, diceva l'oroscopo, di agire con positiva fermezza, prendere ardue decisioni, vedere cosa occorresse fare e farlo. Era tutto assai difficile per lui, ma, sapeva il Capo, nessuno aveva mai detto che fare cose difficili non fosse difficile.
~ Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term Future Perfect has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.
~ Douglas Adams
Elbette ki hayatla baÄŸlant?l? pek çok mesele vard?r ve iÅŸte size onlar?n en yayg?n olanlar?ndan birkaç?: İnsanlar neden doÄŸar? Neden ölürler? Neden bu ikisi aras?nda geçen zaman?n büyük bir bölümünü dijital kol saatleri takarak geçirmek isterler.
~ Douglas Adams
then sat down to do what every galactic hitchhiker ends up spending most of his time doing. They waited for a flying saucer to come by.
~ Douglas Adams
We'll take in a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
~ Douglas Adams
The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him. He said, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
~ Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
~ Douglas Adams
Oh, hello, Arthur Dent here. Look, sorry I haven't been in for six months but I've gone mad." "Oh, not to worry. Thought it was probably something like that. Happens here all the time. How soon can we expect you?" "When do hedgehogs start hibernating?" "Sometime in spring, I think." "I'll be in shortly after that." "Righty-ho.
~ Douglas Adams
He had the perfect idea for explaining away every inexplicable weirdness about himself at a stroke, and he whistled as he pushed open the door which had so daunted him last night. "Arthur!!!!" He grinned cheerfully at the boggling eyes that stared at him from all corners of the pub, and told them all what a wonderful time he'd had in Southern California.
~ Douglas Adams
In Relativity, Matter tells Space how to bend, and Space tells Matter how to move.
~ Douglas Adams
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" ? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
~ Douglas Adams
is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It
~ Douglas Adams
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth.
~ Douglas Adams
Bir ÅŸey olacaksa, olacakt?r... Herhangi bir ÅŸey ortaya ç?karken bir ÅŸeyi ortaya ç?k?yorsa, bir baÅŸka ÅŸeyin ortaya ç?kmas?na neden oluyor demektir... O ÅŸey her neyse, olurken, kendi kendisinin yeniden ortaya ç?kmas?na sebep oluyorsa, tekrar olacakt?r... Bununla birlikte, kronolojik bir s?ra izlenmesi ÅŸart deÄŸildir.
~ Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It has been built on the fragmented remains of…it will be built on the fragmented…that is to say it will have been built by this time, and indeed has been—
~ Douglas Adams