Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
art avoid english literary trying
Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since.
eye cereal trying
Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
breathing people trying
The Hollywood process is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.
trying looks definitions
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
trying rooms break
It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.
trying velocity way
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.
mean trying hey
Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?
trying climate-change endangered-species
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
mean trying looks
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.
trying way want
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
drunk field goes lying
The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTGalaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck
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.