"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"
"After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river"
"But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early"
