Quote

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

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
Learn
Fullness
Away
Sharp
Might
Immediately
Time
Stick
Think
Psychology
Thinking
Push
Like
Sticks
People
Simply

More quotes by Douglas Adams

Image
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
Douglas Adams
Image
People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.
Douglas Adams
Image
If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner... Yeah? Please don't hesitate to get lost.
Douglas Adams
Image
Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
Douglas Adams
Image
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
Douglas Adams
Image
Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.
Douglas Adams
Image
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
Image
Who is this god person anyway?
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
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.
Douglas Adams
Image
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. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.
Douglas Adams
Image
Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.
Douglas Adams
Image
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams
Image
There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole.
Douglas Adams
Image
Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.
Douglas Adams
Image
On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying Wait.
Douglas Adams
Image
Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.
Douglas Adams
Image
He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.
Douglas Adams
Image
He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.
Douglas Adams
Image
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
Douglas Adams