Douglas Adams Quotes

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on the outside!

Douglas Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EyesWalkHellInsideOutsideKid

Growing older doesn't bother me.

Angie Dickinson

MeGrowingBotherOlder

Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven't figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience's part.

Jeff Zucker

ChangeStoryAttentionClimate Change

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

John Wooden

LifeMoneyYouLivingMaking

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

John Turturro

CharacterMeFirstScaryFilmFive

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

Ana Ortiz

LifeParentsMy LifeFriendsKid

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

Sigourney Weaver

FatherHusbandChurchHawaiiHouse

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

Townsend Harris

CountryPresidentFirstPeculiar

Every community has its own specialty and it's not just for clothing obviously, but for the home, etc.

Tracy Reese

HomeCommunityClothingOwnJust

We can't continue to put people lacking the ability to understand a business in a position to run a business.

Robert Blaha

BusinessPeopleRunUnderstandPut

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.

Roberto Cavalli

SuccessGoodFatherI AmStrong

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.

Martin Rees

LifeScienceSpaceIdeasSearch

For an acquisitive Wall Streeter, the money saved by choosing a practical car can be put toward the cost of some pricier means of mobility - like a plane.

Michael Shnayerson

CarMoneyWallCostPracticalMeans

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