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Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that

Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

Dream, Brain, Mind

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

Atheist, Italian, Thinking

Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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.

Special, Details, Nuclear

"Fictional character: Slartibartfast". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.3", www.imdb.com. 1981.

The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.

Distance, Night, Sky

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.

Ideas, Advice, Wish

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

Mean, Deep Thought, Answers

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.119, Pan Macmillan

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

Talking, Tongue, Tongue Tied

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.214, Pan Macmillan

We’ll meet the meat.

Meat

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

Wise, Eye, Lost Ones

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2013). “Last Chance To See”, p.104, Random House

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

People, Deep Thought, Pages

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Firsts, Fit, Capacity

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.355, Pan Macmillan

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Phones, Rings

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

Fun, President, Galaxy

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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.

House, Special, Way

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

Technology, Ninety Nine, Invisible

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume”, p.419, Del Rey

Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.

Needs, Firsts, Realizing

Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

Night, Numbers, Sorrow

Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.

Relax, Helping, Call Me

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

Mixing, Males, Generations

Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?

Mean, Trying, Hey

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

Independence, Computer, Counting

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin. "And what happened?" pressed Ford. "It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.

Suicide, Heart, Simple

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up. “I thought you must be dead …” he said simply. “So did I for a while,” said Ford, “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.

Couple, Jumping, Gin And Tonic

Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.295, Pan Macmillan

Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

Evil, Laughing, Wicked

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.515, Pan Macmillan

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

Incompetence, Incompetent

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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