Quotes About Adventure

What's up? [asked Ford.] I don't know, said Marvin, I've never been there.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. I will go mad! he annouced.

I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

Zaphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but he continued crawling doggedly anyway because he was that brave.

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.

If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?

to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before

Arthur lolled.

Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

All right, said Ford. How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse? Arthur shrugged in a so-so sort of way. I don't know, he said, taking a pull of beer. Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say? Ford gave up. It really wasn't worth bothering at the moment, what with the world being about to end.

In an infinite Universe anything can happen, said Ford, Even survival. Strange but true.

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I've ended up where I needed to be.

any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me," said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, "Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?