Quote

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

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
Tuna
Courses
Bass
Course
Play
Tune
Tunes
Fish
Fishes
Guitar
Unless

More quotes by Douglas Adams

Image
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Douglas Adams
Image
I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say Meet under the clock tower, or Meet under the War Memorial, but Meet under Adams.
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
It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is woking.
Douglas Adams
Image
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. Is there any tea on this spaceship? he asked.
Douglas Adams
Image
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams
Image
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
Douglas Adams
Image
I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.
Douglas Adams
Image
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams
Image
Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.
Douglas Adams
Image
Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.
Douglas Adams
Image
Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.
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
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
Image
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
Image
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
Douglas Adams
Image
The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.
Douglas Adams
Image
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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
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