Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Stanhope

At least black people knew when they were slaves; you remain clueless.

Doug Stanhope

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

Doug Stanhope

Alcohol does not make ugly people attractive. It makes it so you could care less that they're ugly.

Doug Stanhope

If you really believe death leads to eternal bliss then why are you wearing a seatbelt?

Doug Stanhope

Controversial issues are always more interesting but I don't create material about a subject I have opinion on just because it's controversial. The most fun is having a point of view that the audience is generally against and presenting an argument that challenges their thinking.

Doug Stanhope

Sex is a very narrow avenue. You only have so many holes and parts, and eventually, you run out of things to do.

Doug Stanhope

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

Douglas Adams

You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that.

Douglas Adams

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Douglas Adams

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Douglas Adams

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

Douglas Adams

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

Douglas Adams

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.

Douglas Adams

Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun.

Douglas Adams

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

Douglas Adams

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

Douglas Adams

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

Douglas Adams

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Douglas Adams

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Douglas Adams

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.

Douglas Adams

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

Douglas Adams

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

Douglas Adams

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Douglas Adams

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Dorothy Allison

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

Doris Lessing

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Doris Lessing

Small things amuse small minds.

Donnie Wahlberg

Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.

Donnie Wahlberg

If I wanted to connect like I do now, I'd have to write 500,000 letters, get 500,000 stamps, send them out and wait for them all to come back. This stuff is instantaneous. I can see if someone is having a bad day and send them a smiley face and have an effect on them. It's fun, but it's also a very powerful thing.

Donna Tartt

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

Donald Knuth

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.