Douglas Adams Quotes

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

Douglas Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001

Topics

FreedomBalanceThinkBetterYou

I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.

Roger Rees

EyesKingMindDoingI CanPlay

Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.

Roberto Cavalli

MorningTodayHappySunWindowYou

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.

Mary Cheney

TruthMeOffendedOutAttackOffend

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Jean Anouilh

GeniusWithoutObviousUnderstood

A great story poorly told doesn't do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to hear it, and nobody wants to read it. The craft of it is really more important than the subject matter.

Jason Isbell

GoodGreatStoryNobodyImportant

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

China Mieville

WisdomThinkLearnRememberWrong

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

Christopher Meloni

NatureLightThinkPresentBehavior

If I want to hear a voice, Lana Del Rey is very soothing, and I could just listen to her on repeat, but my real go-to that's been very consistent for at least the past ten years is Miles Davis.

Antoni Porowski

PastVoiceWantListenRealRepeat

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Alfred Hitchcock

ScienceTimePeopleLivingDays

'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

William Gibson

TimePeopleCoolThinkEarlyWay

I love collaborating with people.

Peter Jackson

LovePeopleI LoveCollaborating

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.

Pete Wentz

FallBoyNeverOutAnythingWere

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