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“Charming man,’ he said. ‘I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one . .”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“Oda aynen bıraktığı gibiydi, yani cerahat toplamış bir dağınıklık içindeydi, ama bununla birlikte herşeyin üzerini kaplayan kalın toz tabakası bu etkiyi bir parça olsun bastırıyordu. Yarı okunmuş kitaplar ve dergiler, yarı kullaılmış havlular arasında yuvarlanmıştı. Öbür teki kaybolmuş çoraplar, yarı içilmiş kahve fincanlarına yaslanmaktaydı. Bir zamanlar yarı yenmiş bir sandviç olan şey, şimdi yarı yarıya Arthur'un ne olduğunu asla bilmek istemediği bir şeye dönüşmüştü. Bu yığının üzerine bir şimşek gönderirseniz diye düşündü kendi kendine, hayat döngünüsü yeniden başlatabilirdiniz.”
― Douglas Adams

“The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won’t. That is not what “accident” means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.”
― Douglas Adams, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Book 1 of 3

“Wowbagger grunted. He watched the majesty of creation outside his window for a moment or two. “I think I’ll take a nap,” he said, and then added, “What network areas are we going to be passing through in the next few hours?” The computer beeped. “Cosmovid, Thinkpix and Home Brain Box,” it said, and beeped. “Any movies I haven’t seen thirty thousand times already?” “No.” “Uh.” “There’s Angst in Space. You’ve only seen that thirty-three thousand five hundred and seventeen times.” “Wake me for the second reel.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“There had been a nasty moment when his life had flashed before his eyes but he had been too preoccupied with falling and had missed all the good bits.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“it was only the normal Angst that periodically takes undergraduates into its grip, particularly when they have essays to write, but it had seemed a dark and savage weight at the time.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.” “Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.” “I did,” said Ford. “It is.” “So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?” “It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Does that matter at this stage?” shouted Arthur.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit is quite interesting.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I stole it to look for a lot of things.” “A lot of things?” said Ford in surprise. “Like what?” “I don’t know.” “What?” “I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “Why not?” “Because…because…I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.” “What, are you crazy?” “It’s a possibility I haven’t ruled out yet,” said Zaphod quietly. “I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“something was going on. His finger shot upward. “What the hell’s that?” he”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Ford even began to whistle, which was probably his mistake. Nobody likes a whistler,”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“So far they had not done well. They had attempted to eat some of them, bury others and throw the rest of them away. Arthur had finally encouraged one of them to lay a couple of stones on the board he had scratched out, which was not even as far as he’d managed to get the day before. Along with the rapid deterioration in the morale of these creatures, there seemed to be a corresponding deterioration in their actual intelligence”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“It’s like trying to explain to the Amazon River, the Mississippi, the Congo, and the Nile how the coming of the Atlantic Ocean will affect them. The first thing to understand is that river rules will no longer apply.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Well, what you have to understand, young lady, is that the Greeks, not content with dominating the culture of the Classical world, are also responsible for the greatest, some would say the only, work of true creative imagination produced this century as well. I refer of course to the Greek ferry timetables. A work of the sublimest fiction. Anyone who has traveled in the Aegean will confirm this. Hmm, yes. I think so.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.'

'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.”
― Douglas Adams

“This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Life,’ said Marvin dolefully, ‘loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“He instituted this, er, Chair of Chronology to see if there was any particular reason why one thing happened after another and if there was any way of stopping it. Since the answers to the three questions were, I knew immediately, yes, no, and maybe, I realized I could then take the rest of my career off.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone banana.”
― Douglas Adams

“Görüyorsun ya hiçbir zaman 'Evrende yalnızız' diye düşünmemelerinin nedeni, bu akşama kadar Evrenden haberleri bile olmamasıydı. Bu akşama kadar.”
― Douglas Adams, Otostopçu'nun Galaksi Rehberi

“Zaphod’s eyes sparkled with something that may or may not have been avarice as he passed over them. In fact it’s best to be clear on this point—avarice is definitely what it was.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Ford had his own code of ethics. It wasn’t much of one, but it was his and he stuck by it, more or less. One rule he made was never to buy his own drinks. He wasn’t sure if that counted as an ethic, but you have to go with what you’ve got.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Trilogy in Five Parts

“There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“sizi kahrolası ilgisiz gezegen, sizlere karşı hiçbir sempati beslemiyorum.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The mess is extraordinary, and has to be seen to be believed, but if you don’t have any particular need to believe it, then don’t go and look, because you won’t enjoy it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy