Little > Little's Quotes

“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

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“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

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I read once that fake smiling can trick your brain into believing you're happy, which can then spur actual feelings of happiness. I gape at my smiling reflection. I stare into my own lifeless eyes as I grin manically at myself like a deranged chimp.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“We laugh; we make involuntary sounds when we find things funny. Laughing is adorable, if you really think about it.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“Don't worry Jeff, life is meaningless; it's strange and inexplicable that we exist to begin with. we are all basically dead already in the grand scheme of things, and our feelings of sadness are pointless - they are just how our meat sacks react to the chemicals in our bodies.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“I am thinking about how these have always been my hands. I was born with them. I used to hold bottles, blocks, crayons. Everything I have ever eaten. Every book I have ever read. Everything I have ever touched has been with these appendages. I will never have any other hands but these.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“I eye her (wedding) dress and then zero in on all the flowers in the room. I think about how much it cost these people to stand in this room to make noises with their mouths at each other.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“I find it so bizarre that I occupy space, and that I am seen by other people. I feel like I am falling through space and Eleanor just threw me a rose. It's such a sweet, pointless gesture. It would be less devastating to fall through space alone, without someone else falling next to me. Whenever someone does something nice for me, I feel intensely aware of how strange and sad it is to know someone.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“I came to the realisation that every moment exists in perpetuity regardless of whether it's remembered. What has happened has happened; it occupies that moment in time forever... I would blaze through moments for the rest of my life, forgetting things, and becoming ages older, until I forgot everything.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“..would be to see other animals do some of the things humans do. What if birds had concerts? I start to imagine a flock of hundreds of birds surrounding one little bird while it sings to them. That is what this is, when I think about it. We're a herd of animals watching another animal make noises.”
― Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“She wants for nothing'. Nothing at all, Anne said to herself. Nothing but passion or love or, as far as could be seen, even the merest affection. Was that not the very definition of poverty? She did not begrudge Hettie the life, but nor could she envy it. In Henrietta - now Lady Caterham - Anne could see naught but an insentient beauty in a luxurious grave.”
― Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park

“A union of chilly dislike, as did poor Hettie, could reasonably expect to live on into a cheerless old age. Meanwhile, the likes of Elizabeth Austen, blessed with true love and a real, mutual attraction, might well not survive to her fortieth year. Anne marvelled that the curious species of the eager young bride was still not yet extinct. Will they not learn? Surely, financial insecurity was a small price to pay.”
― Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park

“He bore a heavy load at the front there, carried a great sphere before him. It was as if that stomach was a general leading the way, and the couple his troops, following behind.”
― Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park