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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #2
    Douglas Adams
    “There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.”
    Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • #3
    Douglas Adams
    “Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”
    Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • #4
    Douglas Adams
    “But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.”
    Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • #5
    Douglas Adams
    “Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.”
    Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • #6
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
    To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
    To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
    'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.”
    Douglas Adams

  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

    There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #19
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”
    Douglas Adams

  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #21
    Anne Rice
    “Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.”
    Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.”
    Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”
    Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • #24
    Douglas Adams
    “The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.”
    Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • #25
    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    Anne Rice

  • #26
    Anne Rice
    “Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?”
    Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

  • #27
    Harold Bell Wright
    “I have always been taught… that every man is divinely called to his work, if that work is for the good of all men. His faithfulness or unfaithfulness to the call is revealed in the motives that prompt him to choose his field.”
    Harold Bell Wright, The Calling of Dan Matthews

  • #28
    Harold Bell Wright
    “It is not the spirit of wealth, of learning, or of culture that can make the church of value, or a power for good in the world, but the spirit of Christ only.”
    Harold Bell Wright, The Calling of Dan Matthews

  • #29
    Harold Bell Wright
    “And it was no shame to her that she so dreamed. It was no shame that she called before her, one by one, those who had asked her to cross with them the threshold (of marriage) and those who might still ask her. It was no shame that, while her heart said always, "no," she still waited - waited for one whom she knew not, but only knew that she would know him when he came. And it was no shame to her that, even while this was so, she saw herself in the years to come a wife and mother. ”
    Harold Bell Wright

  • #30
    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    Douglas Adams



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