Douglas Adams Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

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  Success, New York, War

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

• And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.

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  Rain, Holiday, Clouds

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

• We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

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  Time, Clouds, Air

• Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

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  War, Believe, Humility

• "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."

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  Glasses, Drunk, Water

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, (Ch. 6), 1979.

• He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn’t stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away. During the following weeks Ford Perfect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox.

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  Girl, Drinking, Pride

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

• Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

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  Water, Buckets, Sticks

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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