"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
- Douglas Adams
About this Quote
This quote by Douglas Adams is a funny take on the feeling of being overwhelmed by the monotony of life. It suggests that the speaker is not able to keep an eye on the days of the week, which Thursdays in particular are particularly difficult to keep track of. This could be interpreted as a metaphor for the sensation of being stuck in a mundane regimen, where the days all appear to blend together and it's difficult to track what day it is. The speaker's failure to "master Thursdays" could be viewed as an indication of their disappointment with the lack of excitement in their life. It could also be translated as an indication of their yearning for something more, a desire to break out of the uniformity of their everyday life.
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining"
"It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city"
"My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days"
"Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted"
"I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday"