Douglas Adams Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001
Birthday: March 11
Death: May 11
When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.
source: Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.71, Pan Macmillan
topic: Past, Car, Feelings, Feeling Pretty, Driving Cars, Fast Lane, Ford Prefect
