What a wonderfully exciting cough! Do you mind if I join you?
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Related:
- Well, here's something to occupy you and keep your mind off things.
-It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind.... - Ursa Minor Beta is, some say, one of the most appalling places in the known
Universe.
Although it is excruciatingly rich, horrifyingly sunny and more full of wonderfully exciting people than a pomegranate is of pips, it can hardly be insignificant that when a recent edition of "Playbeing" magazine Headlined an article with the words "When you are tired of Ursa Minor Beta you are tired of life," the suicide rate there quadrupled overnight.... - How do you feel?"
"Like a military academy; bits of me keep on passing out.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... - Hey, er..." said Zaphod, "what's your name?"
The man looked at them doubtfully.
"I don't know. Why, do you think I should have one?... - Life...loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.
-- Marvin, the Paranoid Android -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... - THE RAVENOUS BUGBLATTER BEAST OF TRAAL:
A mind-bogglingly stupid animal.
It assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a brush, but very very ravenous.... - Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-
bogglingly big it is.
I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.... - Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.
"Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.... - Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows
where his towel is.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

