In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.

The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?