Top 21 Quotes About Arthur Dent
#1. Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
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#2. Time is not currently one of my problems. - Arthur Dent
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#3. Why," said Arthur Dent, "isn't anyone ever pleased to see us?
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#4. The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.
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#5. While his mind was for a moment filled with inexplicable but terribly attractive visions of Arthur Dent's house being consumed with fire and Arthur himself running screaming from the blazing ruin with at least three hefty spears protruding from his back.
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#7. Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button?
Ford Prefect: I wouldn't-
Arthur Dent: Oh.
Ford Prefect: What happened?
Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.
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#8. (who was arguing with a spokesman for the bulldozer drivers about whether or not Arthur Dent constituted a mental health hazard, and how much they should get paid if he did)
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#9. What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.
George Alexiou
#10. He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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#11. My heart stumbled a little, but the tenderness in his voice kept me from falling.
Myra McEntire
#12. My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
#13. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
Jeanette Winterson
#14. Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.
"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.
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#15. Love may not be quid pro quo but marriage certainly is.
Shahla Khan
#16. The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
M.H. Abrams
#17. I found the source of global warming is coming from the hot air coming out of Washington.
Matt Salmon
#18. One Child:
I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time.
Brian Andreas
#19. I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
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#20. Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.
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#21. 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.
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