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"`You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?'
`Yeah,' said Zaphod, `but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.'
`THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?'
`No, just A Zaphod Bebblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?'
`But sir,' it squealed, `I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said
you were dead...'
`Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.'"- The Restaurant
at the End of the Universe/Douglas Adams
“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.” - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“’If I ever meet myself,’ said Zaphod, ‘I’ll hit myself so hard I won’t know what hit me.’”
He was clearly a man of many qualities, even if they were mostly bad ones.” - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“The fronting for the eighty-yard long marble-topped bar had been made by stitching together nearly twenty thousand Antarean Mosaic Lizard skins, despite the fact that the twenty thousand lizards concerned had needed them to keep their insides in.”
“’Ford,’ he said, ‘how many escape capsules are there?’ ‘None,’ said Ford. Zaphod gibbered. ‘Did you count them?’ he yelled. ‘Twice,’ said Ford.
“’Totally mad,’ he said, ‘utter nonsense. But we’ll do it because it’s brilliant nonsense.’” - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"`You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasently
like being drunk.'
`What's so unpleasent about being drunk?'
`You ask a glass of water.'"-- Arthur getting ready for his first jump
into hyperspace. /hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy.
“What a lovely fire. Kinda makes me wish we had a fireplace there.” - Garfield/Jim Davis
"`You know,' said Arthur, `it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in
a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from asphyxiation
in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when
I was young.'
`Why, what did she tell you?'
`I don't know, I didn't listen.'"-- Arthur coping with certain death as
best as he could.
ZAPHOD: Hey, this rock...
FORD Marble...
ZAPHOD Marble...
FORD Ice-covered marble...
ZAPHOD Right... it's as slippery as... as... What's the slipperiest thing you
can think of?
FORD At the moment? This marble.
ZAPHOD Right. This marble is as slippery as this marble.
BOOK Meanwhile, the starship has landed on the surface of Magrathea and Trillian
is about to make one of the most important statements of her life. Its importance
is not immediately recognised by her companions.
TRILL. Hey, my white mice have escaped.
ZAPHOD Nuts to your white mice.
"`My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.'" --- Ford's last ditch attempt to get out of helping Slartibartfast.
"Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of THHGTTG. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness. `Go to it,' it said, `and good luck.' It was cross-referenced to the entry concerning the size of the Universe and ways of coping with that."
"`We've got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them.' The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from Ford. `Stick it up your nose,' he said. `Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know,' insisted the girl, `Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?'" -- Ford "debating" what to do with fire with a marketing girl.
"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 arms out wide. `I will go mad!' he announced." --- Arthur discovering a way of coping with life on Prehistoric Earth.
One of his aides took the calculation further, and was able to announce triumphantly that the Earth was created on Sunday the 21th of October, 4004 B.C., at exactly 9:00 A.M., because God liked to get work done early in the morning while he was feeling fresh. This too was incorrect. By almost a quarter of an hour." --Good Omens/Neil Gaiman&Terry Pratchett
First rule of magic. Don't let anybody know your real name. Names have power.--Books of Magic./Neil Gaiman
John Constantine: Could be, Angels have always given me the creeps.---Books of Magic
Here the sun rises from the eastern sea and has become a moon by the time it sets in the waters of the west: and the waters spill forever into the night----Books of Magic
"To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem." --restaurant at the end of the Universe
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