Quotes About Imagination

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

Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. And

The only places you could ever feel were right were worlds you designed for yourself to inhabit—virtual realities in the electric clubs. It had never occurred to her that the real Universe was something you could actually fit into.

Arthur could almost imagine Paul McCartney sitting with his feet up by the fire one evening

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

Think of a number, any number." "Er, five," said the mattress. "Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?" The

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?

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

a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

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

Share & enjoy life, the universe & everything

little green person, my stomach could take you home and cuddle you all night for the mere idea.

We'll take in a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Pensé que habías muerto... —Yo también lo creí durante un tiempo -convino Ford- y luego decidí ser un limón durante un par de semanas. En todo ese tiempo me divertí saltando dentro y fuera de una tónica con Ginebra.

From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

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Curiosamente, lo único que pasó por la mente del tiesto de petunias mientras caía fue: ¡Oh, no! Otra vez, no. Mucha gente ha imaginado que si supiéramos exactamente lo que pensó el tiesto de petunias, conoceríamos mucho más de la naturaleza del Universo de lo que sabemos ahora.

Não é o bastante ver que um jardim é bonito sem ter que acreditar também que há fadas escondidas nele?

The idea for the title first cropped up while I was lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1971. Not particularly drunk, just the sort of drunk you get when you have a couple of stiff Gössers after not having eaten for two days straight, on account of being a penniless hitchhiker. We are talking of a mild inability to stand up.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? All

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. And

The three billion people weren't actually there, but they watched his every gesture through the eyes of a small robot tri-D camera which hovered obsequiously in the air nearby.