The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book: 33 Movie Quotes with Audio

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1 I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen... And so on.

Peter Jones in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.

Peter Jones in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

3 And thus were created the conditions, for a staggering new form of industry: Custom-made, luxury planet building.

Peter Jones in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

4 The history of every major galactic civilization passes through three distinct and recognizable phases: survival, inquiry and sophistication.

Peter Jones in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

5 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. The introduction starts like this: Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

Peter Jones in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

6 Many men, of course, became extremely rich. But this was perfectly natural, and nothing to be ashamed of because no-one was really poor. At least, no-one worth speaking of.

Peter Jones in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

7 Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communications between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

Peter Jones in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

8 And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Peter Jones in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

9 The effect of which is like having your brain smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.

Peter Jones in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

10 Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly 92 million miles, is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Peter Jones in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy