Douglas Adams Quotes About Flying

Quotes about: Flying

• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Witty, Fear

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

• He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it.

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  Air, Wind, Wings

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

• The kakapo is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something - but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.

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  Running, Thinking, Land

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine (Chapter 4 "Heartbeats in the Night"), 1990.

• The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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  Art, Lying, Humor

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.398, Del Rey

• This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

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  Men, Flying, World

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

• From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of being a sheep startled by anything else it ever encountered, for they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life, and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning, and astonished by all the green stuff in the fields.

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  Morning, Journey, Sheep

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

• The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying.

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  Party, Two, Ducks

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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