Douglas Adams Quotes

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

Douglas Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ScienceWalkWorldYouLivingWeb

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.

Jill Greenberg

ChildrenTimePainSufferingLaugh

I'd love to do some period pieces and some historic work; I just feel like no one's tapped into Latin history and Latin contributions to the making of America, and we've been there over 500 years.

John Leguizamo

WorkLoveHistoryFeelAmericaOver

Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it is the right thing to do and it will benefit the ability of the company to achieve its long-term objectives.

Jeff Weiner

BelieveYouAchieveWillRight

I absolutely always buy in a bigger size. This is true for coats and also sweaters - I always take a bigger size because I think it looks far more chic if it's loose-fitted rather than tight.

Jeanne Damas

ThinkLooksTrueMoreAlwaysSize

I believe in international justice. I believe it's important that you don't just turn the page without people being held to account.

Amal Clooney

JusticePeopleBelieveYouImportant

Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.

Rush Limbaugh

GrowthWorking TogetherTogether

Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

Mike Huckabee

ChildrenHealthJobDeathGovernment

It is hard work composing a song for a film and showing it to makers: 50% of the tune remains the same, and the remaining 50% is changed to suit the script.

Mohit Chauhan

WorkHard WorkSongHardSameSuit

I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.

Louis Navellier

EducationSoftwareBuyAvailable

I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.

Dolores O'Riordan

LifeNegativeShortDwellConclusion

At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much.

Bob McNair

YouRunNoseTackleMuch

It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.

Alice Oswald

StartHandsYouEarthStopWay

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