Quotes About The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

#1. Fiction is people having extraordinary reactions to ordinary things, but in genre fiction, they have ordinary reactions to extraordinary things.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#2. She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently been able to keep this a secret from people.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart.

Adrian Rogers

#4. She reads books like one would breath air to fill up and live.

Anonymous

#5. In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

#6. Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness.
"Go to it," it said, "and good luck.

Douglas Adams

#7. A cup of tea would restore my normality.
[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]

Douglas Adams

#8. How many roads must a man walk down?

Douglas Adams

#9. When it came to love you had to know when to fight, and you had to know when to let go. I was letting go. I never wanted to look at him and hate him; but if I kept myself in this situation I would. I would hate him for never giving me what I wanted. And that wasn't fair.

Rachel Hayes

#10. When we find that we have been aroused to anger we must call for God's help like the apostles when they were tossed about by the wind and storm on the waters. He will command your passions to cease and there will be a great calm.

Francis De Sales

#11. Stay small and control it yourself.

Bruce Oldfield

#12. I've read the 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' at least once a year since I was twelve years old.

Sean Biggerstaff

#13. As Douglas Adams wryly observed in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes!

Marcus Chown

#14. While we may never find or receive the love from others that our hearts are desperate for, we can receive a love even greater than that of which we were deprived.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#15. The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. Her face lit up. Like seriously ... Lit. The. Fuck. Up. Like I'd just told her she'd hit the jackpot.

J. Sterling

#17. I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes.

Ingmar Bergman

#18. The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

Edgar Morin

#19. He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.

Bob Phillips

#20. Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.

Frederick Douglass