Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.173, Del Rey

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• "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

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  Glasses, Drunk, Water

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, (Ch. 6), 1979.

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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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• 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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• My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

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  Firsts, Fit, Capacity

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.355, Pan Macmillan

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• The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

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  Men, Storm, Twenties

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.585, Del Rey

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• Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

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  Water, Buckets, Sticks

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

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• and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

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  Couple, Gin And Tonic, Week

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• "What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."

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  Said, Marvin, Knows

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 1)". Book by Douglas Adams (Chapter 34), October 12, 1979.

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• The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

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  Character, Numbers, Common Sense

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

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  Civilization, Two, Omission

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

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  Funny, Prayer, Knowing

  "Mostly Harmless". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 9, 1992.

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• The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

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  Two, Deep Thought, Answers

  Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) ch. 27

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• I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

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  Meat, Months, Sides

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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• All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

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  Positive, Thinking, Needs

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.118, Pan Macmillan

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• We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

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  Humorous, Profound, Doubt

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.158, Del Rey

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• Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

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  Voice, People, Pieces

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.291, Del Rey

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• The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

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  Years, Firsts, Decline

  Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) ch. 18

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• One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive.

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  Party, Mathematical Equations, Numbers

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.427, Del Rey

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• How many roads must a man walk down?

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  Men, Ultimate Questions, Arthur Dent

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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  Real, Men, Brave

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

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  Life, Inspiring, Dream

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

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  Moments, Happened, Happens

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.135, Pan Macmillan

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