Quote

No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.

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
Really
Quiet
Gain
Slaughtered
Either
Gains
Marshes
Called
Caught
Dried
Lives
Meant
Sprung
Seems
Private
Slept
Live
None
Pocket
Zeta
Many
Large
Pockets
Shipped
Mind
Creatures
Friendly
Mattresses

More quotes by Douglas Adams

Image
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.
Douglas Adams
Image
Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
Douglas Adams
Image
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.
Douglas Adams
Image
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
Douglas Adams
Image
The first ten million years were the worst, said Marvin, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams
Image
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
Douglas Adams
Image
Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.
Douglas Adams
Image
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
Douglas Adams
Image
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
Douglas Adams
Image
Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.
Douglas Adams
Image
Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
Douglas Adams
Image
He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.
Douglas Adams
Image
You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?' 'But sir,' it squealed, 'I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said you were dead...' 'Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.
Douglas Adams
Image
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
Douglas Adams
Image
Anything that happens, happens.
Douglas Adams
Image
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams
Image
When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
Douglas Adams
Image
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.
Douglas Adams
Image
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
Douglas Adams
Image
Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.
Douglas Adams