Skip to main content

Zaphod did not want to tangle ...

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

He had got himself a life. Now...

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

I have always been absurdly, r...

I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say 'Meet under the clock tower,' or 'Meet under the War Memorial,' but 'Meet under Adams.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

How do I know the past is not ...

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

He had extracted himself from ...

He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

Earth: mostly harmless...

Earth: mostly harmless

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic ...

Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

These creatures you call mice,...

These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

In moments of great stress, ev...

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

ЂЋIf you ever find you need he...

ЂЋIf you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner...' 'Yeah?' 'Please don't hesitate to get lost.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

This planet has Ђ' or rather h...

This planet has Ђ' or rather had Ђ' a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

He was constantly reminded of ...

He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

Structural linguistics is a bi...

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

...and the renewed shock had n...

...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

Lovers of print are simply con...

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

Ok,' he said, 'I don't like ...

Ok,' he said, 'I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

Will you stop counting!' snarl...

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

If you took a couple of David ...

If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

Even light, which travels so f...

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

The single raindrop never feel...

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

Douglas Adams 628 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....