Ford Prefect Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Ford Prefect". There are currently 22 quotes in our collection about Ford Prefect. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Ford Prefect!
The best sayings about Ford Prefect that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Names are not always what they seem.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation
  • Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

    Alcohol   World   Six  
    Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.38, Del Rey
  • Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.

  • When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

    Past   Car   Feelings  
    Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.71, Pan Macmillan
  • One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

    Habit   Found   Obvious  
    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.40, Pan Macmillan
  • The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

  • Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.

    C.E. Murphy (2006). “Thunderbird Falls”, p.304, LUNA
  • And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

    Girl   Nice   Men  
    Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan
  • For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

    Success   New York   War  
    Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.102, Pan Macmillan
  • Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

    Three   Thirty   Counting  
    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.171, Pan Macmillan
  • So long, and thanks for all the fish.

    Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, Pan Macmillan
  • My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

    Funny   Humor   Doctors  
    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.42, Pan Macmillan
  • This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.28, Pan Macmillan
  • Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

    Evil   Laughing   Wicked  
    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.515, Pan Macmillan
  • A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan
  • So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.

    Waiting   Vision   Lines  
    Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.55, Pan Macmillan
  • "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

    Glasses   Drunk   Water  
    "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, (Ch. 6), 1979.
  • Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

    Food   Yellow   People  
    Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.509, Pan Macmillan
  • Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

    Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.35, Pan Macmillan
  • Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.

    Special   Used   Should  
    Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.23, Pan Macmillan
  • and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

    Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.13, Pan Macmillan
  • If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

    Exercise   Brain   Lips  
    Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.59, Del Rey
Page 1 of 1
We hope our collection of Ford Prefect quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Ford Prefect is constantly growing (today it includes 22 sayings from famous people about Ford Prefect), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Ford Prefect!