Quotes: Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
He revealed the secret of life, the universe and everything. Then, far too soon, Douglas Adams was taken up to that great Vogon ship in the sky. Although, being an atheist, he'd ticked us off for such quasi-religious references. Sorry Douglas.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
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Getting a movie made in Hollywood is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.
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I wanted to be John Cleese and it took some time to realise the job was, in fact, taken.
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe.
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear.
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