“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.”

“Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.”

“If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don’t be in any doubt about what that means for us: in each of those two thousand five hundreds cases a culture will be lost.”

“You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...”

“Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?!”

“This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.”

“It seems a very specific bid: I´ll take Famous Authors for five hundred.”