The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul Quotes
"No language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'as pretty as an airport.'"
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."
"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'as pretty as an airport.'"
"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
"Early advances should only be made with caution."
"If I could interrogate this table-leg in a way that made sense to me, or to the table-leg, then it could provide me with the answer to any question about the universe."
"Every particle in the universe affects every other particle, however faintly or obliquely."
"The beating of a butterfly’s wings in China can affect the course of an Atlantic hurricane."
"No private detective looks like a private detective."
"I operate by investigating the fundamental interconnectedness of all things."
"It is only a question of knowing how to interpret it."
"I may not know what you’re up to, Toe Rag, I may not know a lot of things, but I do know one thing. I know that I am Thor, the God of Thunder, and that I will not be made a fool of by a goblin!"
"I’m not going to hurt you. All right, I lied about it not going to hurt you, but at least it should be straight now, which will save you a lot worse later on."
"You have to rev her up, let in the clutch, and then wait for a little bit longer than you might normally expect."
"I am Thor. I am the God of Thunder. The God of Rain. The God of the High Towering Clouds."
"Do you have anything that can get these bits of floorboard off my back?"
"I’ve had the sort of day that would make St Francis of Assisi kick babies."
"Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
"The rationalisations I had been trying to construct were now running around inside my head screaming to be let out."
"I reject that entirely. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."
"If everyone who bought them actually read them they’d never bother to buy the next one and his career would be over."
"The whole field of humour could benefit from close and immediate scrutiny."
"words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through."
"The gods were continually flying all over the place and there was never any mention of them hanging around in departure lounges."
"In the midst of the daily hubbub of white noise, and other tiny notes were singing at the same pitch."
"Made to listen once again to all kinds of self-indulgent clap-trap."
"For a moment Dirk had a sense of infinite loss and sadness."
"I hope you haven’t got into my home under false pretences."
"I don’t go to mythical places with strange men."
"You gave birth to us. You made us be what you would not dare to be yourselves."
"A man could gain all the knowledge of the universe, achieve all the ambitions of his mind and all the pleasures of the flesh for the price of his soul."
"Infuse some blossom of the bitter orange. Add some sprinklings of sage while it is still warm."
"This was where they gathered for shelter until they were periodically shooed out."
"The only thing which prevented Kate screaming was the sheer pressure of air rushing into her lungs as she hurtled into the sky."
"She had to struggle with herself to suppress her urge to struggle."
"The result of this was that she struggled rather feebly and was angry at herself for doing so."
"The night was dark, and the blessing of this, she supposed, was that she could not see the ground."
"She could probably, if she tried, bite the stupid brute’s arm, but she contented herself with the idea of this rather than the actual deed."
"Time slipped into a greyness though, and she was less aware of how much of it was passing."
"The sound of wild crashing breakers told her that in fact it was more or less beneath her."
"‘I met you at an airport,’ he said, his voice breaking up in the wind."
"In desperation he started to spin around with his arms outstretched, then decided this was completely futile and lit a cigarette instead."
"If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly."
"Dirk stood speechless. The same two damn people who had been the bane of his life for the entire day had now flagrantly and deliberately disappeared in front of his eyes."
"He wondered if it made any difference knowing what it was you were walking into."
"The smell, like that of the tramp in King’s Cross station, was one that never stopped coming at you."
"The time of the Challenging Hour is nearly at an end. The Challenging Hour has been called by the God Thor."
"I don’t want to hear about your relationship with your wife."
"‘Just to see you dead, Mr Draycott,’ said Dirk Gently, ‘just to see you dead.’"
"‘I found the contract, you bastard,’ raged Thor, waving it at him."
"‘We’ll try the old man’s chambers,’ said Thor and hurled his hammer up to the balcony, with themselves in tow."
"‘I have been so very, very foolish and unwise,’ wept Odin, ‘I have been so wicked and evil, and – ’"