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Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. -- Douglas Adams
The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. -- Douglas Adams
For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was... -- Douglas Adams
Clearness is the ornament of deep thought. -- Luc de Clapiers
Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows; but without that noise. -- Jack Handey
I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, yahoo!, I'd have all my money back. -- Jack Handey
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. -- Leo Burnett
Martha says the interesting thing about fly fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Martha. Grow up. -- Jack Handey
I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex. -- Jack Handey
Sometimes I think the world has gone completely mad. And then I think, "Aw, who cares?" And then I think, "Hey, what's for supper?" -- Jack Handey
If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject. -- Jack Handey
When I was a child, there were times when we had to entertain ourselves. And usually the best way to do that was to turn on the TV. -- Jack Handey
I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick "Americans" as their mascot. -- Jack Handey
Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers? -- Jack Handey
If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flipper, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flipper, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone. -- Jack Handey
When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, ummmm, boy. -- Jack Handey
I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching. -- Jack Handey
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen
Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears me, because I am beautiful. -- Jack Handey
Even though he was and enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again. -- Jack Handey
It's not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume inside and the kid could put it on and really scare you. -- Jack Handey
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. -- Jack Handey
I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!" -- Jack Handey
If you're a circus clown, and you have a dog that you use in your act, I don't think it's a good idea to also dress the dog up like a clown, because people see that and they think, "Forgive me, but that's just too much." -- Jack Handey
When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me. -- Jack Handey
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear. -- Jack Handey
I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint. -- Jack Handey
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do. -- Jack Handey
You have to climb to reach a deep thought. -- Bill Vaughan
Every now and then, I have a deep thought. -- Joel Edgerton
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. -- Louis Kronenberger
I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking. -- Phil Simms
Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work, -- J. R. D. Tata
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, there are tears that do lie too deep for thought. -- Louis Kronenberger
Once you're facing the direction of the deep within, awareness enters without a thought. -- John de Ruiter
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought. -- Bennett Cerf
It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought. -- C.J. Langenhoven
I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep. -- Matt Ridley
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. -- C. S. Lewis
Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. -- Joseph Conrad
What if deep down inside youyou knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were? -- Roger James McDonald
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. -- C. S. Lewis
What if deep down inside you...you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were? -- Roger James McDonald
Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people. -- Pete Wentz
She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy. -- Alex Shakar
After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. -- Robert Breault
How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot? -- William Butler Yeats
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. -- George Steiner
An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart. -- Richard Jefferies
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead -- Charles Dickens
For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red. -- Jami Attenberg
What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything. -- Neil Gaiman
The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge. ... The iPhone is in deep trouble. -- Eric S. Raymond
One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'. -- Rostam Batmanglij
Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out. -- Maxwell Maltz
Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
People generally thought that sharks are dumb eating machines. After some study, I began to realize that these 'gangsters' of the deep had gotten a bad rap. -- Eugenie Clark
There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right. -- George W. Bush
You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous. -- Angus Young
To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought. -- Bruce McCulloch
I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better. -- Tavis Smiley
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The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs. -- Laura Miller
As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later. -- Reynolds Price
This lady has deep feelings for Tengo, Ushikawa thought admiringly. Almost a kind of unconditional love. What would it feel like to be loved that deeply by someone else? -- Haruki Murakami
God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his. -- John Crowley
Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth. -- Anandamayi Ma
Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be taking advantage of everything literature can do when tackling difficult issues. -- Sjon

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