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Quotes About Absurdity

He should have known it was all wrong the moment they started hanging grand pianos over the sea-monster pool in the atrium.
~ Douglas Adams
the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.
~ Douglas Adams
He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.
~ Douglas Adams
Trillian punched up the figures. They showed two-to-the-power-of-Infinity-minus-one to one against (an irrational number that only has a conventional meaning in Improbability Physics).
~ Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is, as has been remarked before often and accurately, a pretty startling kind of a thing.
~ 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
The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.
~ Douglas Adams
What's he saying?" asked Trillian. "Nothing," said Zaphod, "he just phoned to wash his head at us.
~ Douglas Adams
If such a thing is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability.
~ Douglas Adams
If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
~ Douglas Adams
Marvin'in göÄŸsünün derinliklerindeki diÅŸliler g?c?rdad?. Komik, dedi cenaze törenlerine çok uygun bir sesle, tam hayat daha kötü olamaz derken birden her ÅŸey nas?l da daha kötüye gidiyor.
~ Douglas Adams
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.
~ Douglas Adams
but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
~ Douglas Adams
What . . . do . . . you . . . want?' 'I'm looking for someone.' 'Who?' hissed the insect. 'Zaphod Beeblebrox,' said Marvin, 'he's over there.' The insect shook with rage. It could hardly speak. 'Then why did you ask me?' it screamed. 'I just wanted something to talk to,' said Marvin. 'What!' 'Pathetic, isn't it?
~ 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
Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.
~ Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
~ Douglas Adams
Buz dolab?na adeta dans ederek gitti, içindeki aç?s?ndan en az tüylü üç ÅŸeyi buldu ve onlar? bir tabaÄŸa koyarak iki dakika boyunca dikkatle izledi. Bu süre içinde hareket etmek için herhangi bir giriÅŸimde bulunmad?klar?ndan dolay? onlar? kahvalt? oalrak adland?rd? ve yedi.
~ Douglas Adams
We'll take in a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
~ Douglas Adams
There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence.
~ Douglas Adams
There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence. The
~ Douglas Adams
Maybe. Who cares?" said Slartibartfast before Arthur got too excited. "Perhaps I'm old and tired," he continued, "but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway
~ Douglas Adams
What's a whelk got to do with a supernova?' said Arthur. 'It doesn't,' said Ford levelly
~ Douglas Adams
nothing but a gnab gib.
~ Douglas Adams