For instance, on the planet Earth, man... - Douglas Adams - Quotes.Pub

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst 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 reasons.

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It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

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You can’t dodge your responsibilities by saying they don’t exist!

Responsibility Quotes

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

Humility Quotes

A beach house isn’t just real estate. It’s a state of mind.

Real Quotes

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

Space Quotes

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind.

Stories Quotes

I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies – what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week’s news?

Book Quotes

Very strange people, physicists – in my experience the ones who aren’t dead are in some way very ill.

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I’m thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don’t. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

The books people are writing today, they’re too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!

Book Quotes

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

The light was only just visible – except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it’s throat.

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they’d settled on.

When the idea comes, I often can’t remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker’s. It’s almost as if someone else wrote it.

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.

It’s guff. It doesn’t advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn’t actually get you anywhere.

Book Quotes

I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed.

It was his subconscious which told him this – that infuriating part of a person’s brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

He actually caught himself saying things like “Yippee,” as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

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