Douglas Adams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
Karl Malone -
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
A. S. Byatt -
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami -
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Larry Wall -
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
J. M. Roberts
-
I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
Tasha Smith -
There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
Tavi Gevinson -
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
Daniel Craig -
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
T. J. Miller -
I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
Tamora Pierce
-
What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
Kangana Ranaut -
About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
Finn Jones -
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
Felix Dennis -
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
Zach Braff -
Buildings are forms of performances.
Rafael Vinoly -
I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
Harold Prince
-
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
Emma Donoghue -
You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
Patricia Velasquez -
I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.
Bille August -
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
Harold Brodkey -
I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
Bernadette Peters -
Time is bunk.
Douglas Adams