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  • One of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy.†   (source)
  • She sees in Krishna's mouth the whole complete entire timeless universe, all the stars and planets of space and the distance between them, all the lands and seas of the earth and the life in them; she sees all the days of yesterday and all the days of tomorrow; she sees all ideas and all emotions, all pity and all hope, and the three strands of matter; not a pebble, candle, creature, village or galaxy is missing, including herself and every bit of dirt in its truthful place.†   (source)
  • They swirled around Tally, little spiral galaxies set in motion by her passage.†   (source)
  • He was sorely tempted, too, by the perfect, moving model of the galaxy in a large glass ball, which would have meant he never had to take another Astronomy lesson.†   (source)
  • The silver plate they gave her twinkled like a starburst in a galaxy of flashing cameras.†   (source)
  • Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light-years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk.†   (source)
  • It was a story about black holes: scientists say that black holes could engulf two whole galaxies!†   (source)
  • He keeps his bitter face turned away from the galaxies that he'd longed to explore.†   (source)
  • If there is anyone in the entire galaxy I am dying to tell what really happened, it's Rachel.†   (source)
  • And possibly not even in our galaxy!†   (source)
  • Galaxies of snails.†   (source)
  • And there was his face against the smudged glass and his smile as he rocketed across a galaxy far, far away in his yellow X-wing starfighter, jumping to warp speed, until the dusty yellow spaceship was swallowed by dust.†   (source)
  • Reading about galaxies and cosmic microwaves helps me to breathe more easily.†   (source)
  • He would have preferred The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or even another copy of The Hobbit to replace the one he lost last summer in Calcutta, left on the rooftop of his father's house in Alipore and snatched away by crows.†   (source)
  • That the sun had gone black, leaving the ethereal queen the only source of light in the galaxy.†   (source)
  • People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation.†   (source)
  • Speaking of expansion, did you know that there are now something like ninety billion galaxies in the universe?†   (source)
  • Amazingly, I can still see the stars: whole galaxies blooming from nothing—pink and purple suns, vast silver oceans, a thousand white moons.†   (source)
  • A glass cabinet contained a galaxy of glass eyes.†   (source)
  • It gave birth to galaxies and stars and moons and suns and planets and oceans.†   (source)
  • So when I look up I see a galaxy of adventures and heroes and villains, all jostling together and trying to outdo one another, and I sometimes want to tell them to hush up and not distract me with their chatter.†   (source)
  • The Mogadorian alien race, from the planet Mogadore of the 9th Galaxy, have been on Earth for over ten years now.†   (source)
  • Despite the tremendous energies involved, the spacecraft was capable of placing a brief, coded squirt into the incessant babble of FTL bursts which tied the human portions of the galaxy together.†   (source)
  • He saw stars a whole galaxy behind his eyes.†   (source)
  • There's something strange in the stare, as if I am alien, a visitor from another planet, another galaxy.†   (source)
  • And then I would hear him say: "Lord, You turn the wheels of the galaxies.†   (source)
  • It is our first step out into the galaxy.†   (source)
  • "That's the Milky Way, our galaxy.†   (source)
  • The hairdo the size of a galaxy.†   (source)
  • The minute you start to write all those people are at the other end of the galaxy, or something.†   (source)
  • I'll have you out of here in fifteen," Adam promises, stepping into her galaxy.†   (source)
  • Does he want the truth of someone traveling at almost the speed of light in another galaxy?†   (source)
  • She had the entire cosmos living on her skin: gleaming constellations, galaxies too bright to look at, glowing nebulae of pink and blue dust.†   (source)
  • On top of that, Kirk had the romantic chops to woo women in every galaxy he visited.†   (source)
  • Jennifer has never been to Los Angeles, so the next day we drive along Rodeo Drive and under the swaying lollipop palms of Beverly Hills, a distant galaxy twelve miles from Skid Row.†   (source)
  • Afterward, her lifeless body would be released into space, as was the custom on the Colony, left to drift endlessly through the galaxy.†   (source)
  • The worst riff-raff in the galaxy are sent to Salusa Secundus.†   (source)
  • For whatever reason, the God of the universe, the God who holds galaxies in His hands, had seen a reason to reach down to a campus room on Planet Earth and send a dream to a discouraged ghetto kid who wanted to become a doctor.†   (source)
  • Today we know that the sun is only one of an infinite number of stars, and that all the stars around us make up only one of many billions of galaxies.†   (source)
  • In spring, the meadows burst into galaxies of yellow-mustard flowers, and robins and thrashers sing in stands of tulip trees and white ash.†   (source)
  • The faint pulse of the plants' awareness bathed the galaxy of stars that wheeled behind his eyes-each bright spark representing a life-in a soft, omnipresent glow.†   (source)
  • Clancy had the kind of confidence that made him the sun at the center of East River's galaxy.†   (source)
  • He'd flown tanks, helicopters, general cargo, once a whole battalion of troops on his—he thought of the aircraft as his—Galaxy before.†   (source)
  • When we die, if we have lived good lives, our spirits float free of the earth, cross the stars and galaxies, and come at last to a wonderful world at the other side of the universe — Paradise.†   (source)
  • I looked out at the galaxy of flashing lights, felt my eyes well up, and for the second time that day I realized that I was crying.†   (source)
  • The apparatus did not last very long, but it was useful for calling the twins and listening to them talk as if they were in another galaxy, amid the deafening roar and the interruptions of the operator in town, who participated in their conversations, By telephone they learned that Blanca was ill and that the nuns did not want to be responsible for her.†   (source)
  • In the ensuing vacuum of silence, I hear the high-pitched humming of the stars and I feel exultant, thankful for my insignificant place in the galaxy.†   (source)
  • He had said she looked distant, but the expression in his eyes was as remote as a faraway galaxy.†   (source)
  • You didn't walk through any wardrobe to Narnia or take a trip to another galaxy.†   (source)
  • Which, in turn, is in service to a larger life source lost in a bath of stars that is a galaxy scattered in the hugeness of the universe.†   (source)
  • But was another planet or galaxy the most likely source of contamination for the earth?†   (source)
  • She reached down, favoring her injured arm and chose a Galaxy bar that hadn't been flattened by the wrestling match.†   (source)
  • As he ran up the hard, rain-splattered staircase he suddenly gasped, his personal galaxy exploding into a thousand blinding stars of fire.†   (source)
  • Star upon star, red, blue, yellow, and white, swirling nebulae, galaxy upon galaxy: the universe, in its incandescence and darkness.†   (source)
  • So on one of his shows, he explains the concept of a giant black hole in the center of our galaxy.†   (source)
  • I just want to sink away and become part of the black nothingness between the planets and the galaxies.†   (source)
  • I recognized the car in their driveway, an old Galaxy 500 that belonged to Betty and Gene Files.†   (source)
  • Mikhail searched the pockets of the dead terrorist lying at his feet and found a Samsung Galaxy disposable phone.†   (source)
  • And I'll admit I don't have galaxy class systems.†   (source)
  • You arc looking at your own Universe, the island galaxy of which your Sun is a member, from a distance of half a million light-years.†   (source)
  • A sparkling galaxy of dust motes swam through the slanting early light, shimmering up and down across the lofty room crowded with its armoires and desks, its gilt sofas and cabinets and chairs.†   (source)
  • Now I had moved through a galaxy of states, each with its own character, and through clouds and myriads of people, and ahead of me lay an area, the South, that I dreaded to see and yet I must see and hear.†   (source)
  • Capsules are expendable (well, so were we) and when they are gone, you must return to base, even if the Cherenkov generators could still take you twice around the Galaxy.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, Hodge was powerfully moved, jolted as if by electric shock of love: the head ten inches from his own was suddenly gigantic, and looking into the hairy ear Hodge seemed to see past all galaxies into the void where, behold, there was light.†   (source)
  • It was a vision of a shipload of explorers from a far galaxy, strange creatures, solemn and studious, who stumbled on Spaceland and researched it.†   (source)
  • Finally they seemed to move in closer on one of the galaxies.   (source)
    galaxies = collections of star systems held together by gravity
  • Overhead, the ceiling was higher than a cathedral, sparkling like a galaxy of stars.†   (source)
  • A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe.†   (source)
  • Went on to become President of the Galaxy.†   (source)
  • And he told me that our galaxy was a big spiral, and that a lot of galaxies were.†   (source)
  • "It means," said Graff, "that ships could talk to each other even when they're across the galaxy.†   (source)
  • To be hated and despised by every culture in the galaxy?†   (source)
  • We call the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way the Andromeda nebula.†   (source)
  • I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy.†   (source)
  • It's like a galaxy that you can hold in your hand, only more complex, more mysterious.†   (source)
  • Her bright white teeth were like a new galaxy bursting into existence.†   (source)
  • But so far, we've only been talking about our own galaxy.†   (source)
  • Because all of this happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Holmesy.†   (source)
  • A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe.†   (source)
  • Excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, page 634784, section 5a.†   (source)
  • And he told me that our galaxy was a big spiral, and that a lot of galaxies were.†   (source)
  • I reckon I'll become President of the Galaxy, and it just happens, it's easy.†   (source)
  • That means the light from that galaxy takes two million years to reach us.†   (source)
  • Squinting, I could also make out a few tiny nebulae and galaxies in the distance.†   (source)
  • There can be billions of light-years between one galaxy and the next.†   (source)
  • The President of the Galaxy had arrived.†   (source)
  • It lies two million light-years from our own galaxy.†   (source)
  • "Inside a dark nebula is the only place in the Galaxy you'd see a dark screen."†   (source)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol.†   (source)
  • This galaxy resembles a large discus, with our sun situated in one of its several spiral arms.†   (source)
  • Our own sun is one of 400 billion other stars in the galaxy we call the Milky Way.†   (source)
  • What you have so far said nothing about is how in the Galaxy you found it.†   (source)
  • The whole galaxy— or nebula, as we also call it—is 90,000 light-years wide.†   (source)
  • An orange sash was what the President of the Galaxy traditionally wore.†   (source)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels.†   (source)
  • That means that the distance between the galaxies is increasing all the time.†   (source)
  • The most distant galaxies we know of today are about ten billion light-years away from us.†   (source)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book.†   (source)
  • And so new stars and galaxies will form.†   (source)
  • Right, and the same thing applies to the galaxies.†   (source)
  • Will all the galaxies be drawn together in a tight nucleus again?†   (source)
  • That's what's happening with the galaxies in the universe.†   (source)
  • Galaxies continue to fly through the universe away from each other at colossal speeds.†   (source)
  • All the stars and galaxies in the universe are made of the same substance.†   (source)
  • All the galaxies in the universe are moving away from each other at colossal speeds.†   (source)
  • He rubbed his hand viciously across his eyes, making a galaxy of red shooting stars.†   (source)
  • A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ….†   (source)
  • Jessica blinked and rubbed her eyes, but the galaxy of hovering diamonds didn't go away.†   (source)
  • Absent a sudden outbreak of sense in the galaxy …. we're going to need Troy.†   (source)
  • It was their only contact lane with the Glatun and the rest of the galaxy.†   (source)
  • "In this single galaxy of ours," murmured Karellen, "there are eighty-seven thousand million suns.†   (source)
  • It might be the unique strength that wins us a Galaxy.†   (source)
  • I can turn the Galaxy into a gutter if you want it.†   (source)
  • By God give me time I'll complete a picture with the Galaxy inside the frame!†   (source)
  • Must we wipe out every Bug in the Galaxy?†   (source)
  • The galaxies, the stars, the sun, the planets… the world as we knew it.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, however, like distant fiery explosions in far-off galaxies, memories began to materialize, billowing toward Langdon like shock waves across a vast nothingness.†   (source)
  • As we got closer to the monsters, the sound of Charybdis got louder and louder-a horrible wet roar like the galaxy's biggest toilet being flushed.†   (source)
  • It was immediately obvious that the so-called Time Tombs were artifacts launched backward in time from a point at least ten thousand years in the galaxy's future.†   (source)
  • I seem to float upward forever, like when I was a little girl and Daddy flung me into the air, feeling as if I'd just keep going up until I reached the edge of the galaxy.†   (source)
  • The costumes were so absurd that no one knew what these children were supposed to be; they resembled science-fiction angels, spectacular life-forms from another galaxy, as if the Wiggins had decided that the Holy Nativity had been attended by beings from faraway planets (or should have been so attended).†   (source)
  • A Type III civilization's communication energy can reach 1036 watts, approximately equal to the energy output of a galaxy.†   (source)
  • But when you look in direction B, you see lotsmore stars because you are looking into the main body of the galaxy, and because the galaxy is a disk you see a stripe of stars.†   (source)
  • Bedrock becomes boulders, boulders become stones; the ice retreats, a lake forms, and galaxies of freshwater clams flap their million shells at the sun and close and die and the lake seeps away.†   (source)
  • And there is no Ninth Galaxy.†   (source)
  • Everyone's voices seemed very far away—the fragments of the Council members' questions and the Griffins' replies that reached his ears distorted, like sound waves from a distant galaxy.†   (source)
  • Cigarettes often came to their minds, partly because Ida herself smoked like a fiend, a white curl always streaming from her mouth to rise and merge with the great galaxy of smoke wreathing over her head.†   (source)
  • From the most ordinary here (the old man nodding off on the bench at Tudor Village) to the most extraordinary there (a newly discovered galaxy ninety percent to the end of the universe).†   (source)
  • And then the dark mass of Meltdown fans turns into a gyrating, orange-red galaxy as twenty-five hundred new stars appear.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, Bruce Lee is pinioned under a brilliant spotlight that makes his trademark diamond grin flash like the arm of a galaxy.†   (source)
  • Cinder wondered if that was a requirement for serving the Lunar throne—or if she just happened to be the only Lunar in the galaxy who hadn't been born with brilliant eyes and flawless skin.†   (source)
  • But the grotto itself comprises its own slick universe, and inside this universe spin countless galaxies: here, in the upturned half of a single mussel shell, lives a barnacle and a tiny spindle shell occupied by a still smaller hermit crab.†   (source)
  • It was possible that the target was millions of lighthours away, or even at the other end of the galaxy.†   (source)
  • It was inside me, and it had been inside me since the beginning, growing, eating up every ounce of hope and trust and love I had, chewing its way through the galaxy of my soul while I clung to a choice—a choice who is looking at me now as if for the last time.†   (source)
  • The result has been two futures-two realities if you will-one in which the Shrike scourge soon to be released on the Web and interstellar humanity is a weapon from the Core-dominated future, a retroactive first strike from the Volatiles who rule the galaxy millennia hence.†   (source)
  • Dancing with reflected light from the ceiling and the windows, it looked like a small cluster of stars, a miniature galaxy spinning and shimmering overhead.†   (source)
  • It was a fine summer night, the peepers all around making a melodious racket, the sky above a parade of stars and galaxies.†   (source)
  • Fm Sushi K and I'm here to say I like to rap in a different way Look out Number One in every city Sushi K rap has all most pretty My special talking of remarkable words Is not the stereotyped bucktooth nerd My hair is big as a galaxy Cause I attain greater technology Hiro follows Squeaky away from the crowd, into the dimly lit area on the edge of the shantytown.†   (source)
  • Nor had she remembered that the reason people had waited for the Hawking drive to see the spiral arm of the galaxy is that in long-term cryogenic sleep-as opposed to a few weeks or months of fugue-chances of terminal brain damage were one in six.†   (source)
  • It looks exactly like the earth would look from a point in geosynchronous orbit directly above L.A… complete with weather systems—vast spinning galaxies of clouds, hovering just above the surface of the globe, casting gray shadows on the oceans-and polar ice caps, fading and fragmenting into the sea.†   (source)
  • The Firefly universe was anchored in a sector adjacent to the Star Wars galaxy, with a detailed re-creation of the Star Trek universe in the sector adjacent to that.†   (source)
  • Her new office occupied the highest level of the Tau Ceti Center Transline Spire and standing there was like perching on the carpeted summit of the galaxy's tallest, thinnest peak; only the invisible dome of the slightly polarized containment field arched overhead and the edge of the carpet ended in a six-kilometer drop.†   (source)
  • I mean, it takes our solar system like two hundred twenty-five million Earth years to orbit the galaxy.†   (source)
  • I asked him if the spirals of the galaxy were infinite, and he said no, and then he asked about my spirals.†   (source)
  • He had a body and a soul and feelings, and he spoke a language, and he was an adult, and if he and Rey were in hot, hairy, communicative love, then let's just thank God that two consenting, sentient adults found each other in a dark and broken galaxy."†   (source)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says that if you hold a lungful of air you can survive in the total vacuum of space for about thirty seconds.†   (source)
  • Ford had thoughtfully left him his copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to while away the time with.†   (source)
  • In fact, Ford Prefect was a roving researcher for that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.†   (source)
  • "Are you telling me," he said, "that you set yourself up to become President of the Galaxy just to steal that ship?"†   (source)
  • "No no, good heavens, no," exclaimed the old man, "no, the Galaxy isn't nearly rich enough to support us yet.†   (source)
  • It might not even have made much difference to them if they'd known exactly how much power the President of the Galaxy actually wielded: none at all.†   (source)
  • The fact that he had become President of the Galaxy was frankly astonishing, as was the manner of his leaving the post.†   (source)
  • Drink … but … very carefully … The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sells rather better than the Encyclopedia Galactica.†   (source)
  • That is another way of describing the time it takes for light to travel from one end of the galaxy to the other.†   (source)
  • They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous.†   (source)
  • Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.†   (source)
  • Of all the races in all of the Galaxy who could have come and said a big hello to planet Earth, he thought, didn't it just have to be the Vogons.†   (source)
  • When we receive signals from these galaxies, we are going ten billion years back in the history of the universe.†   (source)
  • Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.†   (source)
  • Astronomers say there are about a hundred billion of such galaxies in the universe, and each of these galaxies consists of about a hundred billion stars.†   (source)
  • The Big Bang caused all the substance in the universe to be expelled in all directions, and as it gradually cooled, it formed stars and galaxies and moons and planets …†   (source)
  • A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy.†   (source)
  • "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.†   (source)
  • When radio telescopes can pick up light from distant galaxies billions of light-years away, they will be charting the universe as it looked in primeval times after the Big Bang.†   (source)
  • "Sophie, either you are living in a wondrous universe on a tiny planet in one of many hundred billion galaxies— or else you are the result of a few electromagnetic impulses in the major's mind.†   (source)
  • "The Babel fish," said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.†   (source)
  • Either the universe will go on expanding forever so that the galaxies will draw further and further apart—or the universe will begin to contract again.†   (source)
  • He tossed over The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and then curled himself up into a fetal ball to prepare himself for the jump.†   (source)
  • He gave us food, booze—stuff from really weird parts of the Galaxy—lots of conkers, of course, and we had just the most incredible time.†   (source)
  • For light to reach the other side of the Galaxy, for it to reach Damogran, for instance, takes rather longer: five hundred thousand years.†   (source)
  • Because Ford never learned to say his original name, his father eventually died of shame, which is still a terminal disease in some parts of the Galaxy.†   (source)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a very unevenly edited book and contains many passages that simply seemed to its editors like a good idea at the time.†   (source)
  • But so successful was this venture that Magrathea itself soon became the richest planet of all time and the rest of the Galaxy was reduced to abject poverty.†   (source)
  • Of all the planets in all the star systems of all the Galaxy—many wild and exotic, seething with life—didn't he just have to turn up at a dump like this after fifteen years of being a castaway?†   (source)
  • Even the most seasoned star tramp can't help but shiver at the spectacular drama of a sunrise seen from space, but a binary sunrise is one of the marvels of the Galaxy.†   (source)
  • It was for the sake of this day that he had first decided to run for the presidency, a decision that had sent shock waves of astonishment throughout the Imperial Galaxy.†   (source)
  • The other reason was that this device was in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor—The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.†   (source)
  • On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had—he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.†   (source)
  • "Well, there are a hundred billion stars in the Galaxy, and only a limited amount of space in the book's microprocessors," he said, "and no one knew much about the Earth, of course."†   (source)
  • Within a few short Vog years every last Vogon had migrated to the Megabrantis cluster, the political hub of the Galaxy, and now formed the immensely powerful backbone of the Galactic Civil Service.†   (source)
  • Now he felt he was back on home ground he suddenly began to resent having lumbered himself with this ignorant primitive who knew as much about the affairs of the Galaxy as an Ilford-based gnat knew about life in Peking.†   (source)
  • At the heart of it, unseen, lay a small gold box which carried within it the most brain-wrenching device ever conceived, a device that made this star-ship unique in the history of the Galaxy, a device after which the ship had been named—the Heart of Gold.†   (source)
  • There followed a long period of painstaking research during which he visited all the major centers of ballpoint loss throughout the Galaxy and eventually came up with a quaint little theory that quite caught the public imagination at the time.†   (source)
  • Only six people in the entire Galaxy understood the principle on which the Galaxy was governed, and they knew that once Zaphod Beeblebrox had announced his intention to run as President it was more or less a fait accompli: he was ideal presidency fodder.†   (source)
  • But it was not in any way a coincidence that today, the day of culmination of the project, the great day of unveiling, the day that the Heart of Gold was finally to be introduced to a marveling Galaxy, was also a great day of culmination for Zaphod Beeblebrox.†   (source)
  • Stress and nervous tension are now serious social problems in all parts of the Galaxy, and it is in order that this situation should not be in any way exacerbated that the following facts will now be revealed in advance.†   (source)
  • What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.†   (source)
  • "And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously forward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?"†   (source)
  • Far away on the opposite spiral arm of the Galaxy, five hundred thousand light-years from the star Sol, Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Imperial Galactic Government, sped across the seas of Damogran; his ion drive delta boat winking and flashing in the Damogran sun.†   (source)
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