He pounded his steering wheel, kicked the floor, thumped his…

He pounded his steering wheel, kicked the floor, thumped his casette player until it suddenly started playing Barry Manilow, thumped it until it stopped again, and swore and swore and swore and swore and swore. -c. 9, Rob McKenna’s actions while testing his windshield wipers.

So Long And Thanks for All the Fish, Chapter 9

Other The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Quotes

He sat up sharply and started to pull clothes on. He decided that there must be someone in the Universe feeling more wretched, miserable and forsaken than himself, and he determined to set out and find him.
Halfway to the bridge it occurred to him that it might be Marvin, and he returned to bed. - View Quote Details on He sat up sharply and started to pull clothes on…
Who said anything about panicking?” snapped Arthur. “This is still just the culture shock. You wait till I’ve settled down into the situation and found my bearings. Then I’ll start panicking! - View Quote Details on Who said anything about panicking?” snapped Arthur. “This is still…
The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. “Make it evil,” he’d been told. “Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with.” - View Quote Details on The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed…
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
“Very deep,” said Arthur, “you should send that in to the Reader’s Digest. They’ve got a page for people like you. - View Quote Details on "Very deep,"...">Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
“Very deep,”…
[about a Magrathean sunset that Arthur finds magnificent] “I’ve seen it. It’s rubbish.” - View Quote Details on [about a Magrathean sunset that Arthur finds magnificent] “I’ve seen…
Africa was very interesting,” said Ford, “I behaved very oddly there.” [...] “I took up being cruel to animals,” he said airily. “But only,” he added, “as a hobby.”
“Oh yes,” said Arthur, warily.
“Yes,” Ford assured him. “I won’t disturb you with the details because they would—”
“What?”
“Disturb you. But you may be interested to know that I am singlehandedly responsible for the evolved shape of the animal you came to know in later centuries as a giraffe. - View Quote Details on Africa was very interesting,” said Ford, “I behaved very oddly…
One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can’t. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. -c. 1 - View Quote Details on One of the problems has to do with the speed…
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. - View Quote Details on The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
“Ha! What do you know of always? You say ‘always’ to me, who, because of the silly little errands your organic life forms keep on sending me through time on, am now thirty-seven times older than the Universe itself? Pick your words with a little more care,” he said, “and tact.” - c. 40 - View Quote Details on “Ha! What do you know of always? You say ‘always’…
Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone bananas. - View Quote Details on Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole…