Douglas Adams Quotes About Driving

Quotes about: Driving

• He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.

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  Successful, Car, Getting Lost

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

• But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving

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  Nature, Resilience, Limits

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.204, Ballantine Books

• The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

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  Depression, Giving, Mad

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.167, Pan Macmillan

• When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

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  Past, Car, Feelings

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

• Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

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  Football, Games, Vases

  "Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1988.

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