WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:22:21 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg headache – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Adams, Douglas -- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 2nd” (BBC radio) (1978-03-15) https://wist.info/adams-douglas/75310/ https://wist.info/adams-douglas/75310/#respond Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:48:00 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=75310 ARTHUR: I don’t want to die now, I’ve still got a headache! I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it.


Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 2nd” (BBC radio) (1978-03-15)

The adaptation into the original novelization, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ch. 7 (1979), is nearly the same:

"I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"

 ]]> https://wist.info/adams-douglas/75310/feed/ 0 75310 Catherine II (the Great) -- Letter to Baron Friedrich von Grimm (29 Apr 1775) https://wist.info/catherine-the-great/50516/ https://wist.info/catherine-the-great/50516/#respond Mon, 27 Dec 2021 21:36:34 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=50516 A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.


Catherine II (1762–1796) Russian empress [Catherine the Great; b. Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst]
Letter to Baron Friedrich von Grimm (29 Apr 1775)

In the Collections of the Imperial Society of Russian History, Vol. 23, Catherine the Great, Letters to Grimm, quoted in Gamaliel Bradford, Daughters of Eve (1930). ]]> https://wist.info/catherine-the-great/50516/feed/ 0 50516