Quotes About Douglas

You're very strange," she said. "No, I'm very ordinary," said Arthur, "but some very strange things have happened to me. You could say I'm more differed from than differing.

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

That's right!" agreed Majikthise. "You'll have a national Philosophers' strike on your hands!" The

All right' said Deep Thought. 'The Answer to the Great Question . . .' 'Yes . . . !' 'Is . . .' said Deep Thought, and paused. 'Yes . . . !' 'Is . . .' 'Yes . . . !!! . . . ?' 'Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

He tossed over The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and then curled up into a foetal ball to prepare himself for the jump. At that moment the bottom fell out of Arthur's mind.

Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent," said the old man, sternly.

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion was the better part of valour, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a cupboard.

In so far as it is possible for a green blur to arch its eyebrows disdainfully, this is what the green blur now did.

Look," said Zaphod, "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.

and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public.

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Ford even began to whistle, which was probably his mistake. Nobody likes a whistler

A thoroughly ridiculous form of transport, but a thoroughly beautiful one.

But that's incredible." "No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable." "Er, yeah.

then sat down to do what every galactic hitchhiker ends up spending most of his time doing. They waited for a flying saucer to come by.

it must be said, some success. For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough.

there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.

The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit is quite interesting.

the story of how these consequences are inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book

Zaphod! Wake up!' 'Mmmmmwwwwwerrrrr?' 'Hey, come on, wake up.' 'Just let me stick to what I'm good at, yeah?' muttered Zaphod and rolled away from the voice back to sleep.

Or do you just find that coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.

Zaphod was so surprised that they had to shoot him again before he fell down.

I don't go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterward in seedy space-rangers bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterward for hours to my girlfriend!