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“Life," he said, "will be a very great deal less weird without you!"
Arthur was stunned.
"Do you know," he said, "I think that's the nicest thing any-body's ever said to me?”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Two to the power of twenty thousand to one against and falling.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“My name,’ he said, ‘. . . is Slartibartfast.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“My God,’ complained Arthur, ‘you’re talking about a positive mental attitude and you haven’t even had your planet demolished today. I woke up this morning and thought I’d have a nice relaxed day, do a bit of reading, brush the dog…It’s now just after four in the afternoon and I’m already being thrown out of an alien spaceship six light-years from the smoking remains of the Earth!’ He spluttered and gurgled as the Vogon tightened his grip. ‘All right,’ said Ford, ‘just stop panicking!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Way off in some indistinguishable distance—was it a mile or a million or a mote in his eye?—was a stunning peak that overarched the sky, climbed and climbed and spread out in flowering aigrettes,1 agglomerates,2 and archimandrites.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“the story of how these consequences are inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It's . . . well, it's a long story," he said, but the question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-tw0..."
"I'm afraid," he said at last,"that the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive. Knowledge of one logically precludes knowledge of the other. It is impossible that both can be known about the same Universe."
"Except," said Prak, struggling to sort a thought out, "if it happened, it seems the Question and the Answer would just cancel each other out, and take the Universe with them, which would be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. It is possible that this has already happened," he added with a weak smile, "but there is a certain amount of uncertainty about it.”
― Douglas Adams

“short buzz followed, then silence. “They want to get rid of us,” said Trillian nervously. “What do we do?” “It’s just a recording,” said Zaphod. “We keep going. Got that, computer?” “I got it,” said the computer and gave the ship an extra kick of speed. They waited. After a second or so came the fanfare once again, and then the voice. “We would like to assure you that as soon as our business is resumed announcements will be made in all fashionable magazines and color supplements, when our clients will once again be able to select from all that’s best in contemporary geography.” The menace in the voice took on a sharper edge. “Meanwhile, we thank our clients for their kind interest and would ask them to leave. Now.” Arthur looked round the nervous faces of his companions. “Well, I suppose we’d better be going then, hadn’t we?” he suggested. “Shhh!” said Zaphod. “There’s absolutely nothing to be worried about.” “Then why’s everyone so tense?” “They’re just interested!” shouted Zaphod. “Computer, start a descent into the atmosphere and prepare for landing.” This time the fanfare was quite perfunctory, the voice now distinctly cold. “It is most gratifying,” it said, “that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives…. Thank you.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“As dramatic seas of light went, it was fine, but light is meant to illuminate something, and having driven through what this particularly dramatic sea of light was illuminating they didn’t think much of it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Kitaptaki bilgilerle gerçekler arasında önemli çelişkilerle karşılaşıldığında, yanlış olan taraf her zaman gerçeğin kendisiydi.”
― Douglas Adams

“I wasn't disturbed so much by the "O Lord, we thank Thee for the blessing of Thy day," but "We commend our lives into Thy hands. O lord" is frankly not the sort of thing you want to hear from a pilot as his hand is reaching for the throttle.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“A monstrous, grisly light poured in on them, – a hideous light, – a boiling, pestilential light, – a light that would have disfigured hell. The Universe was coming to an end.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“For a while they flew on, motionless against the starry sweep of the Galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe. And then they turned round. “It’ll have to go,” the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“–Cuarenta y dos –dijo Pensamiento Profundo, con calma y majestad infinitas.”
― Douglas Adams, Guía del autoestopista galáctico

“Well, let us say inexplicable. There is no point in using the word "impossible" to describe something that has clearly happened. But it cannot be explained by anything we know.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“The answer to the great question... of Life, the Universe and Everything... is... forty-two.”
― Douglas Adams

“To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy of Five

“Don't panic and carry a towel”
― Douglas Adams

“Não é o bastante ver que um jardim é bonito sem ter que acreditar também que há fadas escondidas nele?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase

“After a few months’ consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“the main reason why he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you’re in trouble, need a hand out of a tight corner …” “Yeah?” “Please don’t hesitate to get lost.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“This Introduction to the Introduction to the New Edition is a highly significant one in the history of Introductions. Its presence on these pages means that this book has achieved the World Record for the Number of Introductions in a Book of This Nature.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“According to the legends,” he said, “the Magratheans lived most of their lives underground.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Azt javasolnám, használják levénehezéknek.
- Az nem lenne jó, uram - tiltakozott a rendőr. - Akkor folyton kinyílna az ajtó.
- Ezt hogy érti? - kérdezte Richard.
- Merthogy ajtótámaszténak használom. Ebben az évszakban pocsék huzat van az irodában. Nyáron persze arra használjuk, hogy fejbe vágjuk vele a gyanúsítottakat.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“haha”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Magrathea’s been dead for five million years,’ said Zaphod, ‘of course it’s safe. Even the ghosts will have settled down and raised families by now”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It’s not so much an afterlife,” said Arthur, “more a sort of après vie.” The”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy