My favourite quotes are (I may misquote):
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."
and
"Don't drink more than two Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters in one sitting unless your a 30 ton space elephant with chronic phneumonia."
and
"They hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks don't."
"There's a supermodel who shags total prats and I don't know where she lives.."-Coupling
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Where is all this hostility coming from? I thought you guys were friends.
'Here is a man who would not take it anymore!'
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I think it ought to be good. The Cript was actually written by Douglas himself and his own daughter watched over it's creation to make sure it would be what her dad wanted.
A writer was hired, but apparently just to tweak the script here and there to make it fit into the film...
Arthur: It's times like these I wish I'd listened to what my mother said.
Ford: Why? What did she say?
Arthur: I don't know. I wasn't listening.
I don't have the slightest clue how it goes, but the part with the thought records from the sperm wale and petunia.
shareI have two entries to give, but the second entry is connected over two scenes.
But the first entry first:
"Arthur Dent had been in some hell holes in his life, but he had never before seen a spaceport that had a sign saying "Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here." To welcome visitors the arrivals hall featured a picture of the president of NowWhat, smiling. It was the only picture anybody could find of him, and it had been taken shortly after he had shot himself, so although the photo had been retouched as well as could be managed, the smile it wore was rather a ghastly one. The side of his head had been drawn back in crayon. No replacement had been found for the photograph because no replacement had been found for the president. There was only one ambition that anyone on the planet even had, and that was to leave."
( Oh, and I'll put in a spoiler alert right here....)
SPOILER ALERT!!!
(There we go.)
And the second entry, part one:
"I gave a speech once," he [Marvin] said suddenly and apparently unconnectedly. "You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
The mattress was much impressed by this and realized that it was in the presence of a not unremarkable mind.
Plus the follow up:
"That's a pity," said Arthur. "I'd like to hear what he has to say. Presumably he would know what the Question to the Ultimate Answer is. It's always bothered me that we never found out."
"Think of a number," said the computer, "any number."
Arthur told the computer the telephone number of King's Cross railway station passenger inquiries, on the grounds that it must have some function, and this mught turn out to be it.
The computer injected the number into the ship's reconstituted Improbability Drive.
The actual quote I remember is something like this:
Arthur: "It's times like this, when I'm about to be thrown out of the airlock of a Vogon destructor ship to die in the vacuum of deep space, that I'd really wished I'd listened to what my mother told me..."
Ford: "Why? What did she say?"
Arthur: "I DON'T KNOW! I NEVER LISTENED!"
"What do we do now?"
"Enjoy it..."
These are my favorites:
Book: According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the best drink in the known universe is the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. It has the effect of having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon...................................... wrapped around a large gold brick.
Book: Vogons. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous bug-beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, lost, found again, subjected to public inquiry, and finally burned as firelight and buried in soft peat for three months. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry to you. Best way to annoy a Vogon, feed their grandmothers to the ravenous bug-beasts of Traal.
Marvin: Here are the aliens, do you want me to sit in a corner and rust or fall apart where I'm standing?
"Oh no, not again"
I titled a fan fiction of mine that, becuase it was the third in a trilogy. I also wrote it on a project it woodshop, before putting finishing on it.
Also "They hung in the air excatcly like bricks don't" and "HELLO GROUND!"
and "The dead ponds lay in the stagnent pool. They lay. They rotted. they turned around occasionally. bits of flesh dropped off of them occasinally. And sank to the pools mire. They also stank a great deal." The very wort peom in excistance.
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Life is far too important a thing to ever talk seriously about it. - Oscar Wilde
One more, something like "Shortly after he'd one the prize for most clever person in the quadrent(or something similar) he was linched by a group of scientist who had decieded that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-alick".
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Life is far too important a thing to ever talk seriously about it. - Oscar Wilde
Oh frettled gruntbuggly
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee
Groop I implore thee
My foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!
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It's a tough universe...If you're going to survive, you've really got to know where your towel is.
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Don't be alarmed...be very, very frightened!
"The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
the most appropriate one.
"So long and thanks for all the fish"