Quotes About Individuality

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

Hey, er ... said Zaphod, what's your name? The man looked at them doubtfully. I don't know. Why, do you think I should have one? It seems very odd to give a bundle of vague sensory perceptions a name.

If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar. He

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own.

Apart from being extremely good-looking in a blondish, willowyish kind of way, she was dressed well in an "I don't care what I wear, just any old thing that's lying around" kind of way that relies on being extremely careful about what you leave lying around.

Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.

He was not conspicuously tall, his features were striking but not conspicuously handsome.

No voy a ser la marioneta de nadie, mucho menos, de mí mismo.

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know becasue you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.

Tutto quel che, in qualsiasi forma, vedi, senti o provi è specifico di te. Tu crei un universo percependolo, sicché tutto quanto percepisci dell'universo è specifico di te

But naturally my shoulder, sir,' mooed the animal contentedly, 'nobody else's is mine to offer.

Poor Arthur, you're not really cut out for this life, are you?" "You call this life?" "You're beginning to sound like Marvin." "Marvin's the clearest thinker I know.

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.

I'm just this guy, y'know

Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo.

Zaphod's just this guy, you know?

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears.

It wasn't that she wanted to be difficult, as such, it was just that she didn't know how or what else to be.

Herhangi bir ÅŸekilde gördüÄŸün, yaÅŸad???n veya duyduÄŸun bir ÅŸey sana özeldir. Kendi alg?lay?? ÅŸeklinle kendine bir Evren yarat?rs?n. Bu nedenle Evrende alg?lad???n her ÅŸey sana özeldir.

Well,' said Halfrunt brightly, 'Zaphod's just this guy, you know?

You are not your body.

I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.

I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.