100 Hitchhiking Quotes

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Famous Hitchhiking Quotes

Ride the elephant to catch the grasshoppers. — Thai Proverbs

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. — Woody Guthrie

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. - John Gunther

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. — John Gunther

An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. — Publilius Syrus

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

roads were made for journeys not destinations — Confucius

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. — A. B. Yehoshua

what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream. — Sonia Sanchez

Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going. — Warren Miller

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. — Oprah Winfrey

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. — Margaret Thatcher

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. — Dan Chaon

Traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land. — Moroccan Proverbs

Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. — Roy M. Goodman

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

Short Hitchhiking Quotes

  • Names are not always what they seem. — Mark Twain
  • If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. — Douglas Adams
  • So long, and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams
  • Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. — Douglas Adams
  • How many roads must a man walk down? — Douglas Adams
  • I was hitchhiking the other day and a hearse stopped. I said, 'No thanks, I'm not going that far. — Steven Wright
  • Life! Don't talk to me about life! — Douglas Adams
  • Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. — Douglas Adams
  • Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it. — Douglas Adams
  • God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience. — Douglas Adams

Hitchhiking Image Quotes

Into The Wild Quotes

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir

The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not 'something' we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs. — Plutarch

For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty. — Douglas Tompkins

We shall go wild with fireworks...And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness. We don't have any fireworks that big — Natsuki Takaya

There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness... — Neil Gaiman

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination. — Emile Hirsch

The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be. — Rob Brezsny

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. — Wendell Berry

Hitchhikers Guide Quotes

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. — Douglas Adams

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. — Douglas Adams

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. — Douglas Adams

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. — Douglas Adams

I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis. — Douglas Adams

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. — Douglas Adams

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. — Douglas Adams

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane. — Douglas Adams

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. — Douglas Adams

I'd far rather be happy than right any day. — Douglas Adams

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Quotes

Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off. — Douglas Adams

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. — Douglas Adams

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. — Douglas Adams

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! — Douglas Adams

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. — Douglas Adams

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless — Douglas Adams

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does. — Douglas Adams

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. — Douglas Adams

"What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there." — Douglas Adams

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it. — Douglas Adams

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More Hitchhiking Quotes

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed. — Edward Ruscha

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again. — John Lee Hooker

Tourists - have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking." — David Letterman

Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin. "And what happened?" pressed Ford. "It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold. — Douglas Adams

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way. — Jack Kerouac

Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..." "No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?" "Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens." "I can imagine. — Douglas Adams

When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale? — Chris Campbell

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual. — John Waters

Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead. — Greg Gutfeld

Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week. — John Waters

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. — Douglas Adams

Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. — Douglas Adams

The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. — Douglas Adams

There's a lot of science in it, and as Slartibartfast [in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] said: 'I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.' I've never, ever been able to do one. I remember one occasion at Warwick University, when Jack and Ian were at their wits' end because I couldn't get it. I felt totally ashamed. — Terry Pratchett

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. — Douglas Adams

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