Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

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  Funny, Science, Light

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.622, Pan Macmillan

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• Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.

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  Breathing, Way, Pardon Me

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

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  Thinking, Doe, Hitchhiking

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

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  Life, Tired, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

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• It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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  Jobs, People, President

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Twelfth" (radio program) (1980) See Twain 14

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• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Religious

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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  Hitchhiking, Thursday, Arthur Dent

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

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  Funny, Family, Food

  "Fictional character: The Book". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. January 1981.

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• The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

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  Ego, Important, Want

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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  Funny, Witty, Fear

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

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  People, Mind, Hitchhiking

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.129, Del Rey

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• This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Money

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

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  Love, Life, Relationship

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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  Funny, God, Crazy

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Fifth" (radio program) (1978)

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• My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

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  Funny, Humor, Doctors

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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  Democracies Have, Long, Dolphins

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, Pan Macmillan

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• He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

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  Reality, Afterlife, Religion

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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• Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

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  War, Communication, Race

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

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  Hitchhiking, Said, Paranoid

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

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  Success, New York, War

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

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  Penguins, Hitchhikers Guide, Arthur Dent

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

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  Light, Filing Cabinet, Doors

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.28, Del Rey

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• That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

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  Cute, Girl, Sarcastic

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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• Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

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  Fall, Guy, Hitchhiking

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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