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| 8088c76 | Laden with all these new possessions, I go and sit at a table. And don't ask me what the table was like because this was some time ago and I can't remember. It was probably round." [...] "So let me give you the layout. Me sitting at the table, on my left, the newspaper, on my right, the cup of coffee, in the middle of the table, the packet of biscuits." "I see it perfectly." "What you don't see," said Arthur, "because I haven't mentioned hi.. | crossword train | Douglas Adams | |
| 85af8d8 | This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person is me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I'd gotten the time of the train wrong. I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a packet of cookies. I went and sat at a table. I want you to picture the scene. It's very important that you get this very clear in your mind. Here's the.. | english humor | Douglas Adams | |
| a4e1e6c | One conservation worker we met said he sometimes wondered if the mating call of the male didn't actively repel the female, which is the sort of biological absurdity you otherwise find only in discotheques. | Douglas Adams | ||
| a20bd2e | The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.To explain -- since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation -- every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fair.. | irony-of-life science | Douglas Adams | |
| eea2a97 | the rest of you... keep banging the rocks together | Douglas Adams | ||
| 42487d3 | He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste cent.. | humor tea | Douglas Adams | |
| a744240 | Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free. | Douglas Adams | ||
| c238a75 | NO ADMITTANCE. NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. GO AWAY. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 1004706 | Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 4935717 | he also had a device which looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million "pages" could be summoned at a moment's notice. It looked insanely complicated, and this was one of the reasons why the snug plastic cover it fitted into had the words Don't Panic printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 70b9390 | We'll meet the meat. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6a81729 | We already have the Wooden Pillar, the Steel Pillar and the Plastic Pillar. In a moment we will have the Golden Bail....' No, you won't.' We will,' stated the robot simply. No, you won't. It makes my ship work.' In a moment,' repeated the robot patiently, 'we will have the Golden Bail....' You will not,' said Zaphod. And then we must go,' said the robot, in all seriousness, 'to a party.' Oh,' said Zaphod, startled, 'can I come?' No,' said t.. | humor robot | Douglas Adams | |
| eacd54f | But that can't work, can it?" Said Richard. "If we do that, then this won't have happened. Don't we generate all sorts of paradoxes?" Reg stirred himself from thought. "No worse than many that exist already," he said. "If the universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts an.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 203a4c9 | Time blossomed, matter shrank away. The highest prime number coalesced quietly in a corner and hid itself away for ever. | Douglas Adams | ||
| e0c533a | I'm a writer and I'm feeling like death, as you would too if you'd just flown into Grand Rapids, Michigan at some ungodly hour of the morning only to discover that you can't get into your hotel room for another three hours. In fact it's enough just to have flown into Grand Rapids, Michigan. If you are a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, then please assume that I am just kidding. Anyone else will surely realise that I am not. Having nowhere .. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 3459b4f | As if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules. | Douglas Adams | ||
| cc0a309 | If you don't open that exit hatch this moment I shall zap straight off to your major data banks and reprogram you with a very large axe, got that? | Douglas Adams | ||
| 27c45d4 | Step onto the road and there's no telling where you might be swept off to. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9086250 | till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning-point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly, it did not seem of any use at the moment. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 257c478 | Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e3593f2 | Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. | treaty war | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 75f030c | No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazon. | simarillion tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a20dfbe | Let me think!' said Aragorn. 'And now may I make a right choice, and change the evil fate of this unhappy day!' He stood silent for a moment. 'I will follow the Orcs,' he said at last. 'I would have guided Frodo to Mordor and gone with him to the end but if I seek him now in the wilderness, I must abandon the captives to torment and death. My heart speaks clearly at last: the fate of the Bearer is in my hands no longer. The Company has play.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 65b57dd | See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we grows very strong, stronger than Wraiths. Lord Smeagol? Gollum the Great? The Gollum! Eat fish every day, three times a day, fresh from the sea. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9c400e1 | Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the Little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights. When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 84eae1b | I can manage," said Frodo. "I must." -- | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6ad4e60 | As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. | desire j-r-r-tolkien the-hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0a4a6af | Still that must be expected,' said Gandalf to himself. 'He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can. | gandalf j-r-r-tolkien the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 28dc271 | Where and what are Helm's Deep and all the rest of it?" said Merry. "I don't know anything about this country." "Then you'd best learn something, if you wish to understand what is happening," said Gandalf. "But not just now, and not from me: I have too many pressing things to think about." "All right, I'll tackle Strider at the camp-fire: he's less testy. But why all this secrecy? I though we'd won the battle!" | gandalf meriadoc meriadoc-brandybuck merry merry-brandybuck strider | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a38820b | But, but, lord," Merry stammered, "I offered you my sword. I do not want to be parted from you like this, Theoden King. And as all my friends have gone to battle, I should be ashamed to stay behind." "But we ride on horses tall and swift," said Theoden; "and great though your heart be, you cannot ride on such beasts." "Then tie me on the back of one, or let me hang on a stirrup, or something," said Merry. "It is a long way to run; but run I.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8c3eb23 | I wrote The Lord of the Rings because I wished 'to try my hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3a775d6 | We cannot achieve victory by arms, but by arms we can give the Ring-bearer his only chance, frail though it be. | gandalf j-r-r-tolkien the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king the-ring-bearer | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 8f677b9 | Hullo!" said Merry. "So that's what is bothering you? Now, Pippin my lad, don't forget Gildor's saying--the one Sam used to quote: Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." "But our whole life for months has been one long meddling in the affairs of Wizards," said Pippin. "I should like a bit of information as well as danger. I should like a look at that ball." "Go to sleep!" said Merry. "You'll get .. | gildor hobbits j-r-r-tolkien meriadoc-branybuck merry-brandybuck peregrin-took pippin-took sleep the-lord-of-the-rings the-two-towers tolkien wizards | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6d06441 | Yet Frodo began to hear, or to imagine that he heard, something else: like the faint fall of soft bare feet. It was never loud enough, or near enough, for him to feel certain that he heard it; but once it had started it never stopped, while the Company was moving. But it was not an echo, for when they halted it pattered on for a little all by itself, and then grew still. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 5555deb | And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his no.. | j-r-r-tolkien marriage rosie-cotton sam the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| e497277 | I am Aragorn son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar the Elfstone, Dunadan. The heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me, or thwart me? Choose swiftly! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 91c9fd0 | That's done it! Now I've rung the front-door bell! | middle-earth sam tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| f5a1be2 | Si muchos de nosotros dieran mas valor a la comida, la alegria y las canciones que al oro atesorado, este seria un mundo mas feliz. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8c446bd | You have had some very strange adventures, I hear,' said Gloin. 'I wonder greatly what brings four hobbits on so long a journey. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d0d16c4 | Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 97f168a | he willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else; and of their operation everything should be, in form and deed, completed, and the world fulfilled unto the last and smallest. But Iluvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8916ba1 | Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.... We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7cd2cf4 | Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and be.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 5f574ac | I have more need of thought than of sleep. | j-r-r-tolkien the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien |