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Letter "D" » Douglas Adams Quotes
«He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
equally, foot, footed, shifted, shifts, uncomfortable, weight, weighted
«The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.»
«Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.»
«This planet has -- or rather 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 that were unhappy.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
New York
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«That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
forms, meeting, organic, profound, unintelligent, young girl
«Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.»
«Time is bunk.»
«Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.»
«So long, and thanks for all the fish.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
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