Zaphods Quotes & Sayings

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it. — Geneva Carr

I love you, and you're the measure of my wrath.
Declan. — Ilona Andrews

Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute? — Henry David Thoreau

A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay — Catherynne M Valente

Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona. — Charlie Day

Vampires did this all the time, you remember. It was normal for them, it was their own unique take on resource conservation. They could have taught your kind a few things about restraint, if that absurd aversion to right-angles hadn't done them in at the dawn of civilization. Maybe they still can. They're back now, after all - raised from the grave with the voodoo of paleogenetics, stitched together from junk genes and fossil marrow steeped in the blood of sociopaths and high-functioning autistics. One of them commands this very mission. A handful of his genes live on in your own body so it too can rise from the dead, here at the edge of interstellar space. Nobody gets past Jupiter without becoming part vampire. — Peter Watts

Be yourself, build meaningful relationships, follow your dreams. — Ray William Johnson