Quotes About Adams

Zaphod! Wake up!' 'Mmmmmwwwwwerrrrr?' 'Hey, come on, wake up.' 'Just let me stick to what I'm good at, yeah?' muttered Zaphod and rolled away from the voice back to sleep.

Or do you just find that coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.

Zaphod was so surprised that they had to shoot him again before he fell down.

I don't go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterward in seedy space-rangers bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterward for hours to my girlfriend!

The word yellow wandered through his mind in search of something to connect with. Fifteen seconds later he was out of the house and lying in front of a big yellow bulldozer that was advancing up his garden path.

Hey, er, hand me the raprod, Plate Captain." The

stared fixedly into the sky like a rabbit trying to get run over by a car.

They're as stupid as any other organic life form. I hate them.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

It has been said that Vogons are not above a little bribery and corruption in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds

Would you like to see the menu?" he said. "Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?

here's something to occupy you and keep your mind off things.' 'It won't work,' droned Marvin, 'I have an exceptionally large mind.

I like everything," moaned the robot. "Especially when you shout at me like that. Do it again, please.

42, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. This Answer was first calculated by the supercomputer Deep Thought after seven and a half million years of thought. This shocking answer resulted in the construction of an even larger supercomputer, named Earth, which was tasked with determining what the question was in the first place.

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

I love Captain Marvel. I'd love to see a Captain Marvel movie.

Watership Down is a real place, like all the places in the book. It lies in north Hampshire, about six miles southwest of Newbury and two miles west of Kingsclere.

Oh, Frith in a barn! What a business!

Sometimes I can tell these things, too: but not often now for my heart is in the frost.

Are you trying to frighten me, you miserable little lump of chattering chickweed?

These facts about today's political climate in the United States, and what they imply, would have horrified Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Adams and all their friends. Whether they were atheists, agnostics, deists or Christians, they would have recoiled in horror from the theocrats of early 21st-century Washington.

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.