Aldous Huxley Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

  Aldous Huxley

  Fall, Brave New World, Giving

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

• The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Eight, Water

  Peter Edgerly Firchow, Aldous Huxley (1984). “The end of Utopia: a study of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world”, Bucknell Univ Pr

• Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Years, Two

  "The Shortcut: 20 Stories to Get You from Here to There". Book by Kevin A Fabiano, p. 179, 2006.

• ...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fall, Home, Rocks

• Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Heart, Names

  Aldous Huxley (1922). “Crome Yellow”

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