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“As dramatic seas of light went, it was fine, but light is meant to illuminate something, and having driven through what this particularly dramatic sea of light was illuminating they didn’t think much of it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Kitaptaki bilgilerle gerçekler arasında önemli çelişkilerle karşılaşıldığında, yanlış olan taraf her zaman gerçeğin kendisiydi.”
― Douglas Adams

“I wasn't disturbed so much by the "O Lord, we thank Thee for the blessing of Thy day," but "We commend our lives into Thy hands. O lord" is frankly not the sort of thing you want to hear from a pilot as his hand is reaching for the throttle.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“A monstrous, grisly light poured in on them, – a hideous light, – a boiling, pestilential light, – a light that would have disfigured hell. The Universe was coming to an end.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“For a while they flew on, motionless against the starry sweep of the Galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe. And then they turned round. “It’ll have to go,” the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“–Cuarenta y dos –dijo Pensamiento Profundo, con calma y majestad infinitas.”
― Douglas Adams, Guía del autoestopista galáctico

“Well, let us say inexplicable. There is no point in using the word "impossible" to describe something that has clearly happened. But it cannot be explained by anything we know.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“The answer to the great question... of Life, the Universe and Everything... is... forty-two.”
― Douglas Adams

“To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy of Five

“Don't panic and carry a towel”
― Douglas Adams

“Não é o bastante ver que um jardim é bonito sem ter que acreditar também que há fadas escondidas nele?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase

“After a few months’ consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you’re in trouble, need a hand out of a tight corner …” “Yeah?” “Please don’t hesitate to get lost.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“This Introduction to the Introduction to the New Edition is a highly significant one in the history of Introductions. Its presence on these pages means that this book has achieved the World Record for the Number of Introductions in a Book of This Nature.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“According to the legends,” he said, “the Magratheans lived most of their lives underground.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Azt javasolnám, használják levénehezéknek.
- Az nem lenne jó, uram - tiltakozott a rendőr. - Akkor folyton kinyílna az ajtó.
- Ezt hogy érti? - kérdezte Richard.
- Merthogy ajtótámaszténak használom. Ebben az évszakban pocsék huzat van az irodában. Nyáron persze arra használjuk, hogy fejbe vágjuk vele a gyanúsítottakat.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“haha”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Magrathea’s been dead for five million years,’ said Zaphod, ‘of course it’s safe. Even the ghosts will have settled down and raised families by now”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It’s not so much an afterlife,” said Arthur, “more a sort of après vie.” The”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“We’ve arrived at another of those doors.” There was a sliding door let”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Arthur looked up. ‘Ford,’ he said, ‘there’s an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out.”
― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“bring the two aliens up here under surveillance.” With a microsecond pause, and a finely calculated micro-modulation of pitch and timbre—nothing you could actually take offense at—Marvin managed to convey his utter contempt and horror of all things human. “Just that?” he said.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays”
― Douglas Adams

“except that the legends say the Magratheans used to manufacture planets.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn’t a fish.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I've heard a tape of collected kakapo noises, and it's almost impossible to believe that it all just comes from a bird, or indeed any kind of animal. Pink Floyd studio out-takes perhaps, but not a parrot.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“SUSAN’S FLAT WAS small but spacious, which was a trick, reflected Richard tensely as he turned on the light, that only women seemed able to pull off.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“As he grinned his heart screamed unbearably”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy