Douglas Adams Way Quotations

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.

Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.