Quote

What's up? I don't know, said Marvin, I've never been there.

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
Marvin
Never

More quotes by Douglas Adams

Image
One is never alone with a rubber duck.
Douglas Adams
Image
We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.
Douglas Adams
Image
It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.
Douglas Adams
Image
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.
Douglas Adams
Image
I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
Image
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.
Douglas Adams
Image
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
Image
Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
Douglas Adams
Image
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
Douglas Adams
Image
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
Image
Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.
Douglas Adams
Image
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.
Douglas Adams
Image
I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.
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
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
Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.
Douglas Adams
Image
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams
Image
Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
Douglas Adams
Image
Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.
Douglas Adams
Image
Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.
Douglas Adams