Douglas Adams Quotes

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

Douglas Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceBookYearYouRunFirst

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

Jenn Lyon

MyselfGoalNeverWorkingActress

President Obama is more and more beginning to look like the hypocrite-in-chief when it comes to the war on terrorism. All sorts of things that he criticized the president for, he's actually continued and even extended. This drone attack program, he's got it at the highest level ever.

John Fleming

BeginningWarLookTerrorismMore

There are not many athletes who are out. And I think it's something that's important. It felt important to me. I guess it seems like a weight off my shoulders, because I've been playing a lot better than I've ever played before. I think I'm just enjoying myself, and I'm happy.

Megan Rapinoe

MyselfHappyMeThinkBetterOut

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

Anita Baker

DaughterWifeSchoolBreakfastDoing

That is the thing that I was scared of - that I would know intellectually that there's something to glean out of life, but that I would be so broken that I wouldn't care.

Amanda Knox

LifeBrokenCareKnowOutScared

Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.

Stephen Karam

GoodAloneYouPlayDeskMore

Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.

Sue Hubbell

NatureNeverWildSpeakingBees

I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.

Roisin Murphy

MeLadySaidPoorNeverImitation

I've never been one to learn scales and do exercises. Maybe I'm lazy, but I just don't take to that kind of thing. Learning other people's songs is enjoyable, and my fingers tend to go to new places because I'm not playing my music, the stuff that comes naturally to me.

Mat Kearney

LearningMusicPeopleMeLearnNew

Lou Holtz, I was also a huge fan of. He was really funny. I think that's a big part of why I was attracted to the Razorbacks: I thought Lou Holtz was really funny. He is really funny. Too bad he's a born-again, or whatever.

Matt Besser

FunnyThinkThoughtBadWhyBig

I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys.

Molly Shannon

PainfulUsedGetGuysReally

I will support the Republican nominee. I don't think that's going to be Donald Trump. My party has historically nominated someone who's a mainstream conservative.

Mitt Romney

SupportThinkSomeonePartyWill

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