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“His first theory was that if human beings didn’t keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this—“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“For the next two weeks I took up playing in the traffic, being careless with kitchen knives, and neglecting to stand clear of the doors on station platforms, but, sadly, I led a charmed life, and I had to go through with it: four weeks of the greatest humiliation and embarrassment known to man or, rather, to that most easily humiliated and embarrassed of all creatures, the overgrown twelve-year-old boy.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Едно от най-големите затруднения, които Трилиън срещаше при взаимоотношенията си със Зейфод, идваше от това, че все още не се бе научила да познава кога се прави на глупак просто за да приспи вниманието на хората, кога се прави на глупак, защото го мързи да мисли и иска някой друг да върши това вместо него, кога се прави на ужасен глупак, за да скрие факта, че всъщност нищо не разбира, и кога е наистина един неподправен глупак.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Encyclopedia Galáctica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colorless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms. The Hitchhiker’s”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“But she was finding it increasingly easy to believe that God, if there was a God, and if it was remotely possible that any godlike being who could order the disposition of particles at the creation of the Universe would also be interested in directing traffic on the M4, did not want her to fly to Norway either.”
― Douglas Adams

“A thin whine filled the air. It whirled and howled through the trees, upsetting the squirrels. A few birds flew off in disgust. The noise danced and skittered round the clearing. It whooped, it rasped, it generally offended. The Captain, however, regarded the lone bagpiper with an indulgent eye.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Sen nasıl-'
'Sana söyleyemem.'
'Niçin? Bütün bu yolu bunun için geldim.'
'Sen benim gördüğümü göremezsin, çünkü kendi gördüğünü görüyorsun. Benim bildiğimi bilemezsin, çünkü kendi bildiklerini biliyorsun. Benim gördüklerim ve bildiklerim senin gördüklerin ve bildiklerine eklenemez, çünkü aynı cinsten şeyler değiller. Ne de senin gördüklerin ve bildiklerinle değiştirilebilir, çünkü bu senin kendini değiştirmen anlamına gelecektir.”
― Douglas Adams, Otostopçu'nun Galaksi Rehberi

“Shall I leave the window open or would you like to try the door?” she said with a sniff.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“That’s the point, it’s out of date now,”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single statement took the scientific world by storm. It completely revolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years. Slowly,”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“First you had to fight the Stones fans, which was tricky because they fought dirty and had their knuckles nearer the ground.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“His name was Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. He was a man with a purpose. Not a very good purpose, as he would have been the first to admit, but it was at least a purpose and it did at least keep him on the move.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“„Calitatea oricărui sfat pe care îl are oricine de oferit trebuie să fie evaluată raportat la calitatea vieții pe care acela chiar o duce.”
― Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series Douglas Adams Collection 5 Books Bundle

“Arthur Dent, you are not merely a cruel and heartless man, you are also staggeringly tactless.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Life was, in short, ridiculously easy and for a while at least they were able to cope with the problems of aimlessness and isolation by deciding to ignore them.”
― Douglas Adams

“It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without proper training.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The sky which had started out with such verve and spirit in the morning was beginning to lose its concentration and slip back into its normal English condition,”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“I don’t want to die now!’ he yelled. ‘I’ve still got a headache! I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It was instantly clear what he was doing. He was contemplating life. He was hanging out. It was quite obvious. Or rather, the temptation to find it quite obvious was absolutely overwhelming.

They look like humans, they move like humans, they hold things in their fingers like humans, the expressions which play across their faces and in their intensely human-looking eyes are expressions that we instinctively feel we recognize as human expressions. We look them in the face and we think, “We know what they’re like,” but we don’t. Or rather, we actually block off any possible glimmering of understanding of what they may be like by making easy and tempting assumptions.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“This planet has – or had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper which were unhappy.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“You’re a jerk, Dent,” said the boy, “a complete kneebiter.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Today was the day; today was the day when they would realize what Zaphod had been up to. Today was what Zaphod Beeblebrox’s presidency was all about.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Number Two’s eyes narrowed and became what are known in the Shouting and Killing People trade as cold slits, the idea presumably being to give your opponent the impression that you have lost your glasses or are having difficulty keeping awake. Why this is frightening is an, as yet, unresolved problem.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Benim mutluluk kapasitemi," diye ekledi, "bir kibrit kutusuna sığdırabilirsin, hem de içindeki kibritleri bile çıkarmadan.”
― Douglas Adams, Guide to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The man, he believed with an instant effortlessness which would have impressed even a Scientologist, must be a God of some kind to arouse such fervour.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“He stumbled uncertainly after her. The encircling torch beams were drooping now slightly as if they were abdicating to this strange, quiet girl who alone in this Universe of dark confusion seemed to know what she was doing.”
― Douglas Adams

“Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer’s movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer’s movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer’s movement in restaurants.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“He had lived in it for about three years, ever since he had moved out of London because it made him nervous and irritable. He was about thirty as well, tall, dark haired and never quite at ease with himself. The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about. He worked in local radio, which he always used to tell his friends was a lot more interesting than they probably thought. It was, too – most of his friends worked in advertising.”
― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy