Douglas Adams Quotes
The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
Quotes to Explore
-
We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
-
I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
-
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
-
I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
-
I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
-
Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
-
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
-
It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
-
When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
-
When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
-
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
-
There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
-
I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
-
It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
-
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
-
When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
-
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
-
Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
-
I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.
-
A Jewish convert said to me once, 'The Communists hate God, and the Catholics love Him. But they are both facing Him, directing their attention to Him. They are not indifferent. Communists are not in so bad a case as those who are indifferent. It is the lukewarm that He will spew out of His mouth.'
-
I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.
-
I wanna be drunk when I wake upOn the right side of the wrong bed.And every excuse I made upTell you the truth I hate.What didn't kill me,It never made me stronger at all.
-
For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.
-
The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
