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.

About Douglas Adams

Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 14 million copies in...

More quotations from Douglas Adams

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

—Douglas Adams

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Anything that is in the world when you�re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that�s invented between when you�re fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you�re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

—Douglas Adams

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

—Douglas Adams

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

—Douglas Adams

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.

—Douglas Adams

More quotations tagged with “breakfast”

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

—Oscar Wilde

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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

—Marlene Dietrich

forgiveness sin breakfast

My wife and I tried two to three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable that we had to stop.

—Winston Churchill

relationships time breakfast

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

—Max Beerbohm

communication dreams breakfast

For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

—Andy Rooney

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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.