Douglas Adams Birthday Quotes

#1. Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Bob Woodward

#2. Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,
myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

Georges Danton

#3. Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth.

Vironika Tugaleva

#4. Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

Heather Bixler

#5. Life is nothing but a sea shell in the ocean of love.

Debasish Mridha

#6. The strongest man is the one who, when he gets angry and his face reddens and his hackles rise, is able to defeat his anger.
(Reported by Imaam Ahmad, 5/367, and classified as hasan in Saheeh al-Jaami', 3859)

Anonymous

#7. When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

John Taylor Gatto

#8. Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your th and th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.

Douglas Adams

#9. I remember a story about an Irish warrior who killed his son by mistake but when he realised he didn't mind that much because it served the son right.

Max Porter

#10. I'm absolutely against privatizing the V.A. And I am going do everything I can to build on the reforms that Senator Sanders and others in Congress have passed to try to fix what's wrong with the V.A.

Hillary Clinton

#11. NBC is making a movie about Martha Stewart that will cover the recent stock scandal. They are thinking of calling it 'The Road To Extradition.'

Conan O'Brien

#12. I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked ... and comedians are always talking about politics.

Aasif Mandvi

#13. It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.

Brian Selznick

#14. In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

Maria Semple