Adrian > Adrian's Quotes

“He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness.

"You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Oh my god, I am a banana.”
― John Green

“Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you, and also sometimes people do stuff that involves baby-making parts that does not actually involve making babies, like for instance kiss each other in places that are not on the face.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Why are breakfast food breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?"

"Hazel, eat."

"But why?" I asked. "I mean seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty world / Of eye and ear, both what they half create / And what perceive; well pleased to recognize / In nature and the language of the sense, / The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse/ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.”
― William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

“Get rid of this bozo!!”
― Junji Ito, Tomie

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.”
― Hank Green

“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what’s so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what’s so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. Mr. Prosser wanted to be at point D. Point D wasn’t anywhere in particular, it was just any convenient point a very long way from points A, B and C. He would have a nice little cottage at point D, with axes over the door, and spend a pleasant amount of time at point E, which would be the nearest pub to point D. His wife of course wanted climbing roses, but he wanted axes. He didn’t know why—he just liked axes. He flushed hotly under the derisive grins of the bulldozer drivers.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The word yellow wandered through his mind in search of something to connect with. Fifteen seconds later he was out of the house and lying in front of a big yellow bulldozer that was advancing up his garden path.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful, and no one should ever doe it unless they are being chased by a bear.”
― Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

“The cows aren't happy. They're sad. They're sad cows.”
― Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

“And if you're not going to eat five sheets of toilet paper while discussing the political situation in Nepal, well, I'm going to.”
― John Green

“Cricket”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“If you were to say to the grown-ups: “I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof,” they would not be able to get an idea of that house at all. You have have to say to them: “I saw a house that cost $20,000.” Then they would exclaim: “Oh, what a pretty house that is!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Awake,chaos:we have napped.”
― E.E. Cummings, E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1913-1962

“Where do the ducks go in the winter?”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“What about Paul?"
"Paul is for girls."
"I like Paul best."
"Well, you're a girl."
"Why is Paul for girls?"
Tread carefully, I tell myself. "Uh gee. Paul is, like, the Nice Beatle, you know?"
"Is that bad?"
"No, not at all. But guys are more interested in being cool, and John is the cool Beatle."
"Oh. But he's dead.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.”
― Roald Dahl