Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
taken world beard
Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.
thinking looks world
So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about.
world reason stay-with-me
Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.
men flying world
This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.
three world form
The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.
oddities perspective world
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.
alcohol world six
Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.
feet world different
He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
today world said
Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?
world hitchhiking complexity
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
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.