Quote

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

Douglas Adams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
Comedian
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Douglas Noel Adams
Douglas Noël Adams
Douglas N. Adams
Alone
Never
Duck
Rubber
Ducks

More quotes by Douglas Adams

Image
Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.
Douglas Adams
Image
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
Image
It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.
Douglas Adams
Image
A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.
Douglas Adams
Image
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.
Douglas Adams
Image
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
Douglas Adams
Image
People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.
Douglas Adams
Image
Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
Douglas Adams
Image
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. I will go mad! he annouced.
Douglas Adams
Image
You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!
Douglas Adams
Image
Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.
Douglas Adams
Image
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused.
Douglas Adams
Image
You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.
Douglas Adams
Image
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.
Douglas Adams
Image
Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
Douglas Adams
Image
In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.
Douglas Adams
Image
Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.
Douglas Adams
Image
If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.
Douglas Adams
Image
Perhaps I'm old and tired, 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
Image
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
Douglas Adams