Hiker Quotes

#1. 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.

Douglas Adams

#2. Organizers had been able to find interpreters for. First up on the dais was Mary Bulinski, the United States secretary of the interior, an inveterate hiker and climber, spry at sixty. By training she was a wildlife

Neal Stephenson

#3. For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.

Jim Wickwire

#4. I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

Mandy Patinkin

#5. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

Douglas Adams

#6. I'm a big outdoorsman ... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.

Bruce Rauner

#7. Mr. Bird was an avid hiker, lover of reggae

Anonymous

#8. A hiker who was lost in a blizzard said he stayed alive by digging a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth. Today he was offered a job as President Obama's economic adviser.

Jay Leno

#9. Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life

Miguel De Unamuno

#10. The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

Douglas Adams

#11. I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them.

Emo Philips

#12. Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat.

Toni Sorenson

#13. ISSERLEY ALWAYS DROVE straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her.

Michel Faber

#14. The long distance hiker, a breed set apart,
From the likes of the usual pack.
He'll shoulder his gear, be hittin' the trail;
Long gone, long 'fore he'll be back.

M.J. Eberhart

#15. I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Howard Berman

#16. I use a laptop more as a tool, as sort of the central artery. Everything goes through the digital audio card of my computer, but if I had my druthers I'd do everything in dedicated hardware.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

#17. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Thomas Huxley

#18. The boredom and annoyance that shut down over it were humiliatingly plain to see. I could have slapped her for it.

Mary Stewart

#19. But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

Dan Stevens

#20. What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism
can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?

R.D. Laing

#21. We are never so vulnerable as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

#22. Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask.

Jack Adams

#23. What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#24. I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Erica Jong

#25. "Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

Katharine Hepburn