Quotes About Adventure

Try and understand his problem," insisted Ford. "Here he is, poor lad, his entire life's work is stamping around, throwing people off spaceships …" "And shouting," added the guard.

But listen," he shouted to the guard, "there's a whole world you don't know anything about … here, how about this?

A slight hiss built into a deafening roar of rushing air as the outer hatchway opened onto an empty blackness studded with tiny, impossibly bright points of light. Ford and Arthur popped into outer space like corks from a toy gun.

Out there? said the man. Out where? Out there! said Zarniwoop, pointing at the door. How can you tell there's anything out there? said the man politely. The door's closed.

Ford handed the book to Arthur. "What is it?" asked Arthur. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a sort of electronic book. It tells you everything you need to know about anything. That's its job.

he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc.

That's cool,' said Zaphod, 'we'll meet the meat.

Arthur tried to hold her hand to steady her and reassure her, but she wouldn't let him. He held on to his airline hold-all with its tin of Greek olive oil, its towel, its crumpled postcards of Santorini and its other odds and ends. He steadied and reassured that instead.

I didn't have a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day (as it then was) because I wasn't in that financial league.

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

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

The history of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of idealism, struggle, despair, passion, success, failure, and enormously long lunch-breaks.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

it's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think it's the fame and the money . . .

We've arrived at another of those doors." There was a sliding door let

Yes. I much prefer it here. So much less reputable, so much more fraught.

went back on to the bridge to watch over the tiny flashing lights and figures that charted the ship's progress through the void.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is, as has been remarked before often and accurately, a pretty startling kind of a thing.

What's so great about being stuck in a dust cloud?

Don't tell me about the future," said Ford. "I've been all over the future. Spend half my time there. It's the same as anywhere else. Anywhen else. Whatever. Just the same old stuff in faster cars and smellier air.

Computer," said Zaphod, "tell us what our present trajectory is.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did. "Zaphod," she said patiently

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.