Дуглас Ноэль Адамс знаменитые цитаты
„Неужели недостаточно, что сад очарователен; неужели нужно шарить по его задворкам в поисках фей?“
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Источник: Ричард Докинз, «Бог как иллюзия» (2006) // пер. с англ. Н. Смелковой. — М: КоЛибри (Иностранка), 2008. — эпиграф книги
Дуглас Ноэль Адамс Цитаты о жизни
имеет ту же самую форму, что и сама лужа.
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow preordained for us, because we are so well suited to live in it, he mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.
Ричард Докинз
Источник: The Guardian, May 14, 2001.
Источник: Р. Докинз. Эпилог // Лосось сомнений. — С. 373.
Дуглас Ноэль Адамс цитаты
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Источник: Детективное агентство Дирка Джентли (сборник)
Дуглас Ноэль Адамс: Цитаты на английском языке
“I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by.”
Вариант: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Источник: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
Вариант: So long and thanks for all the fish.
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Источник: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Источник: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”
Источник: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”
Источник: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 13
Контексте: My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
Вариант: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Источник: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Вариант: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Источник: Mostly Harmless
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”
Источник: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
Источник: Life, the Universe and Everything
Источник: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy