â the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy â sentence starters
â All the dolphins have ever done is muck about in the water having a good time. â
â Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? â
â Isnât it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? â
â Space is big. You just wonât believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think itâs a long way down the road to the chemistâs, but thatâs just peanuts to space. â
â If thereâs anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. â
â Iâd far rather be happy than right any day. â
â This must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. â
â Youâre turning into a penguin. Stop it. â
â No, I was only fooling. We are going to die after all. â
â So long, and thanks for all the fish. â
â Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. â
â If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? â
â Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasnât previously aware of. â
â Thereâs an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet theyâve worked out. â
â I think you ought to know Iâm feeling very depressed. â
â All through my life Iâve had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was. â
â Life. Loathe it or ignore it, you canât like it. â
â Blood⊠blood⊠blood⊠blood⊠â
â I donât want to die now! Iâve still got a headache! I donât want to go to heaven with a headache, Iâd be all cross and wouldnât enjoy it! â
â Â My capacity for happiness you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first. â
â Oh dear, you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well. Are you all right? â
â Life! Donât talk to me about life. â
â Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I donât know why I bother to say it, oh god Iâm so depressed. â
â The fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. â
â Call that job satisfaction? âCause I donât. â
â Very deep. You should send that in to the Readerâs Digest. Theyâve got a page for people like you. â
â Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? â
â Who is this God person anyway? â
â Hey, this is terrific! Someone down there is trying to kill us! â
â  Iâll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled⊠until⊠until⊠until⊠until youâve had enough. â
â That is really amazing. That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think Iâd like to steal it. â
â I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style. â
â Youâve got as much sex appeal as a road accident. â
â Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff. â
â Itâs partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think itâs the fame and the money. â
â It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level. â