Douglas Adams: Frases en inglés

Douglas Adams era escritor y humorista británico. Frases en inglés.
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“Life… is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.”

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Douglas Adams libro So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Fuente: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“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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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Fuente: Life, the Universe and Everything

“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.”

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Douglas Adams libro The Meaning of Liff

Fuente: The Deeper Meaning of Liff

“We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.”

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Douglas Adams libro El salmón de la duda

Fuente: The Salmon of Doubt

“Ow! My brains!”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.”

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Douglas Adams libro El restaurante del fin del mundo

Fuente: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.”

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Douglas Adams libro El restaurante del fin del mundo

Fuente: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”

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Douglas Adams libro Informe sobre la Tierra: fundamentalmente inofensiva

Fuente: Mostly Harmless

“My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”

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“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”

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“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.”

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As quoted in The Guardian (1995), and in "Biting back at Microsoft" (5 June 2001) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/jun/05/guardianletters3