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
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.”
Источник: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Источник: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
“The door was the way to… to… The Door was The Way.”
Источник: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Контексте: The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
Источник: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Источник: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 17
“I don't go to mythical places with strange men.”
Источник: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n.
One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.”
Источник: The Deeper Meaning of Liff
“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”
Вариант: You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.
Источник: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Источник: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
Источник: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Источник: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“… and the Universe,… will explode later for your pleasure.”
Источник: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.”
Источник: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”
Источник: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Вариант: and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Источник: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Источник: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Источник: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Источник: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Источник: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 23