|
|
|
| Selection
of Quotes by
Douglas Adams . Enjoy these inspirational and motivational quotes.
|
|
|
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Life is wasted on the living. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. |
|
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Management is nothing more than motivating other people. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. |
|
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. |
|
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. |
|
Author: John Stuart Mill
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
|
Author: Martin Luther King Jr
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. |
|
Author: Rupert Murdoch
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
|
Author: Pablo Picasso
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
|
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Management is nothing more than motivating other people. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. |
|
Author: Lee Iacocca
- rate & share |
|
|
|
|
