Quote

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

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
Running
Exploded
Approached
Flew
Ball
Wicket
Balls
Flurry
Suddenly
Trot
Legs
Bowler
Arms
Bowlers

More quotes by Douglas Adams

Image
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
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
You know, said Arthur, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. Why, what did she tell you? I don't know, I didn't listen.
Douglas Adams
Image
Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
Douglas Adams
Image
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
Douglas Adams
Image
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that 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
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
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.
Douglas Adams
Image
WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.
Douglas Adams
Image
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.
Douglas Adams
Image
The Guide says there is an art to flying, said Ford, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
Image
She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.
Douglas Adams
Image
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
Douglas Adams
Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.
Douglas Adams
Image
And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.
Douglas Adams
Image
But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment. I've seen it. It's rubbish, said Zaphod,nothing but a gnab gib. A what? Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.
Douglas Adams
Image
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
Douglas Adams
Image
In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.
Douglas Adams