It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

— Douglas Adams
About Facts

Douglas Adams Quotes

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

— Douglas Adams
Positive Interesting Short About Life Thought Provoking

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

— Douglas Adams
Learning Experience Short About Life Humor

And so the Universe ended.

— Douglas Adams

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

— Douglas Adams

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

— Douglas Adams

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?

— Douglas Adams

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

— Douglas Adams

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.

— Douglas Adams
Book

Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren’t up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.

— Douglas Adams

Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don’t expect to see.

— Douglas Adams

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

— Douglas Adams

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. “I will go mad!” he annouced.

— Douglas Adams

I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy’s heart away and I got Sidney’s leg.

— Douglas Adams

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

— Douglas Adams

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.

— Douglas Adams

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

— Douglas Adams

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

— Douglas Adams
Firsts

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it’s art while it’s being created.

— Douglas Adams

There’s nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, “Well, okay, I’m going to do something of high artistic worth.” It’s funny.

— Douglas Adams

Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

— Douglas Adams
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