h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"... I have nothing to hide, literarily, that is."
Isaac Asimov

Math

"I wished sometimes that I could shake off all thought and feeling. But I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand."

How about the one that was edited out of the bible.

"blessed is he who expecteth nothing,
for in no way shal he be disappointed"

or

"It's a wonderful thing to be considered as being dotty"

Next of Kin
by the late and great Eric Frank Russell

"Good doesn't seem to be good enough! Aren't you the good man?"

From the coversation Roy Batty had with Deckard after a bullet nearly cleaved Roy's head in half. From the film Blade Runner, which is so full of great quotes that I'm tempted to type out the entire script.

"The light that shines twice as bright burns half as long ... and you have burned so very brightly Roy"

Doctor Elden Tyrell explains to the replicant that his days are numbered. However it's the good doctor who gets it first.

Damn that was a good film. The book is very wierd.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion....." etc etc


Yep- i do love that film!!

Kind of loses impact without the punctuation-

'Cancel Christmas' - the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves


'Percy, who is queen?' - Blackadder II

and finally

'Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
Full many a flower was born to blush unseen,
and waste its sweetness on the desert air' - Thomas Grey

'my dad has a chest wig made of jazz'

tony law, comedian

The fool in a hurry drinks his tea with a fork.

"We're walking forward but looking behind..."

From Tangerine Dream's album Cyclone (1978). That bit has always stuck in my mind.

"Ignorance is the choice not no know."

From "Dune" by Klaus Schulze (I think - I know it's from a Klaus Schulze album)

"Dodef do dat!!"

Nyssa Jr.

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Did you put the entire script on there?

that was a waste fo time wasnt it? not to mention a breach of copyright

Complete waste of space.

Blessed are the cheesemakers.

"I don't care the fart of a two copper piglet"
Belyan - Minor character from Katherine Kerr's Dawnspell.

Math

just as energy can't be made or destroyed, time can't be created or wasted, you can use it in an unsatisfactory manner, but reading the script to 'blade runner' in a very good use of someone's time.
and as to copy rights, laws are made to be broken and they are broken every day, just take a peek at what's going on in washington.

dorian

aha. but the h2g2 website takes a dim view of that sort of thing. also, laws are made to be kept.

at least until they are scrapped as unenforcable...

Being a Doctor Who fan this is one of my favorite quotes from the series.

Doctor(speaking of the timelords): 'In all my travelling throughout the universe I have battled against evil, against power mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans... Cybermen, they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt.'