Douglas Adams Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  1988 The Long Dark Tea- Time of the Soul, ch.1.

• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

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  Tired, Airports, Expression

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

• I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

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  Wise, Eye, Lost Ones

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2013). “Last Chance To See”, p.104, Random House

• If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

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  Ears, Sticks, Language

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.68, Del Rey

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