There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. Douglas Adams More Quotes by Douglas Adams More Quotes From Douglas Adams Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it. Douglas Adams president attention jobs It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked. Douglas Adams break trying rooms If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. Douglas Adams language sticks ears The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. Douglas Adams common-sense numbers character Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water? Douglas Adams buckets sticks water Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears. Douglas Adams boxes life-is It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book. Douglas Adams awful writing book Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. Douglas Adams strange awareness safe Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan. Douglas Adams take-a-deep-breath wheels stress There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do. Douglas Adams humorous funny interesting "Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered." Douglas Adams god-knows courses doe Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order. Douglas Adams happens time order Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. Douglas Adams finding-your-path bypass people Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing Douglas Adams cutting technology writing Space is really big-REALLY big. Douglas Adams bigs space 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. Douglas Adams opposites two long There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end. Douglas Adams computer two facts I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing. Douglas Adams writing believe years My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees. Douglas Adams brother order fall The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever. Douglas Adams atheism light eye
