Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
talking space laundromats
I have detected disturbances in the wash.' 'The wash?' 'The space-time wash.' 'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?' 'Eddies in the space-time continuum.' 'Ah...is he. Is he.' 'What?' 'Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?
talking tongue tongue-tied
I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.
talking ignorant roles
Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.
children real talking
It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.
bad exception faster light possible special speed travels
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
bad exception faster follows news possible rules travels
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules
appear known language phrase
It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear
normal perfectly universe
No, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
brick color red wall
The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
access besides eliminated five people suspects
Besides the pastor, there were about five people who had access to the safe, ... Those people have been eliminated as suspects through the investigative process.
arriving traveling
Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
brilliant totally utter
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
ford listened wish
Arthur: 'It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to my mother.' Ford : 'Why, what did she say?' Arthur: 'I don't know, I never listened.'
drunk field goes lying
The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTGalaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck