Author of quotes: Douglas Adams. Page 2



For a moment he tried to imagine what it must feel whales. Now was a good time to penetrate into the essence of the problem, although whales probably were more adapted to the smooth maneuvering among the blue ocean waters, than it is to fight traffic on the Pentonville road in his battered Jaguar, but far more thought it was the ability of whales to sound. Once they were transmitted across the ocean space because of the ability of sound to be transmitted over long distances under water. And now for the same reason, in the ocean there is not one place which is not vibrated from the noise of marine engines, and this incessant hum deprived them of the opportunity to communicate with each other.
№ 272820   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:48
It turned out that the strut exploded, according to his own will. There have been several explanations, but really they were just the usual definitions of the same process, only expressed in other words, and were based on the same laws, which gave the world the expression "metal fatigue". And now to explain the sudden spontaneous transition of wood, metal and plastic explosive was invented as a similar definition: "supercritical nonlinear structural fluctuation", or, to put it differently, as did the next day on television one of the alternate members of the Council of Ministers "the front Desk is extremely fed up with to be where she was".
№ 272693   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:44
It was not the room which suggests the idea of the sublime. Louis XIV, for example, would have found that there are not enough Sunny and a little mirror - she would he did not like. He wished that everywhere was cleaned socks, as well as plates, and maybe even ordered to burn the room down. Michelangelo would have experienced great pain at the sight of her proportions, which not only was impressive, but devoid of any significant harmony or symmetry, except that in all parts of the room contained approximately equal amounts of unwashed coffee mugs, shoes and brimming ashtrays, which had already begun to combine their duties with each other.
The walls were green almost exactly a tone which would have made Raphael rather bite off my hand than use it, and if the room happened to see a Hercules, a half hour later he would return there armed with a navigable river.
№ 272692   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:44
To a large extent this was due to his method of Zen of driving, which was simply to find any car that had that look like she knew where she was going, and just go for it. The results were often unexpected, rather than successful, but he believed that by this method it is possible to use it because at least occasionally they have been both of those at the same time.
№ 272691   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:44
Is the Alma mater of Coleridge and sir Isaac Newton who invented the cat door.
What? - asked Richard.
- Ingenious the invention, is simple and ingenious. The hole for the cat in the toilet door...
"Yes," Richard said, and even such a trifle as the law of gravity.
- Gravity... - Dirk dismissive shrug. - Yes, that too. Although it is just a discovery of what lay on the surface. It begged to hand, take open.
№ 272606   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:41
Don't ask me why the phone is if we are in the distant past of the Universe. This question is appropriate to ask the British telephone company.
№ 272605   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:41
The duties of the Electric Monk was to believe in all that is necessary to trust people, and thus to free them from this increasingly burdensome need.
№ 272588   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:40
Mason gave him another one of his gloomy Outlook, it was a whole set, ranging from very dark and gloomy, like a cloud, to different extent, darkly skeptical and gloomy-tired or gloomy condescending, which he was usually clothed, like the sweets for his children for their birthdays.
№ 272587   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:40
The fact that human memory is getting richer, much of it just falls out. So, as you can see, the difference between someone my age and your not in how much he remembers and how much he forgot. In the end you forget what you forgot, and then forget all that you've ever something to remember, and not remember what you just said.
№ 272586   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:40
If the universe is every doubt that it happened, was on the verge of death, she would have lasted longer than one picosecond. And there were many such cases. It is like the human body. A few cuts and bruises are not capable of inflicting serious damage to the Universe. Even surgery if it is done by skilled hands. The paradox for her is nothing more than scars. Time and space heal themselves, and the people remember a version of events. But this does not mean that, faced with a paradox, you will not be surprised by certain things, but if you will say that this has never happened to you in your life, then I don't know what planet you lived. I can only say that this.
№ 272585   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:40
Thanks to the distance between antipathy and the desire to kill someone half the human race continues to flourish and to enjoy life.
№ 272584   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:40
After all, you're not stupid Celli, you have to hand it to you, but I repeat mistakes all the smart people: I think all the other fools.
№ 272583   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:40
- Describe him.
- High. Tall and too skinny. And good-natured. A bit like a beetle praying mantis, not on prey. So, you know, nice and friendly praying mantis who is hunting for other insects took up tennis.
№ 272571   Added MegaMozg 25-01-2017 / 12:39
- Why can't people learn to live together in peace and contentment? - said Arthur.
Ford willfully and loudly laughed.
- Forty-two! he said, grinning mischievously. - No it's not. Okay, never mind.
№ 271646   Added MegaMozg 19-01-2017 / 14:21
Scientists stressed that everything will be just fine, provided that nobody will panic, and will just do what needs, as they should.
№ 271599   Added MegaMozg 19-01-2017 / 14:20