Sci Fi Quotes
Tim Burton
We all know interspecies romance is weird.
3386 Veronica Rossi
In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.
3654 Frederik Pohl
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
3084 Gini Koch
I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest gun handler on the planet.
3356 Sara Sheridan
Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.
3066 Milly Silver
It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.
3731 Erik Meyer
Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.
4237 Elizabeth Newton
I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a pleasant experience, as I'm sure you can imagine.
3570 D.J. MacHale
I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you.
3941 Steven Wright
I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.
2940 George Lucas
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
1960 Douglas Adams
This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
1795 Lois McMaster Bujold
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
2745 Philip Pullman
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.
3087 Laurell K. Hamilton
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.
4456 Chidi Okonkwo
Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.
1948 Matthew S. Williams
It was unhealthy to get too attached. Such things were best reserved for people who had a life expectancy
4241 S.J. Perelman
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
4285 Chayada Welljaipet
Thank you father, thank you. I know you watched me from above and protected me. I promise I shall serve the Magnarian Confederation with all my body and soul. I shall dedicate myself fully to our confederation, the family that you so loved. And I love it too. I shall protect, love and respect it always. This is my promise and commitment. Thank you
2699 Susan Sontag
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
2876 Orson Scott Card
I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
1252 Howard Tayler
Maxim 8:
Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
4947 Howard Tayler
Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.
Munitions Commander? Why me?
I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part.
-Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn
1723 Howard Tayler
Ennesby, get the Serial Peacemaker to the beach for dustoff."
"Dustoff? You're going to run away from three guys?"
"No, I'm going to kill or capture those three guys, and then run away from the Police.
4202 Howard Tayler
Yes, but none of them can steal my ship.
None of them are smart enough to know that it was the right thing to do at the time.
-Captain Tagon & Ennesby
2249 Howard Tayler
You're more mean-spirited than I remember you being.
It's this organic body. Hologram fur wasn't itchy.
-Admiral Breya Andreyasn & Petey
3596 Howard Tayler
Does that mean that if we shave all the Ob'enn they'll be nice?
-Sergeant Schlock
3215 Howard Tayler
Two minutes worth of signal analysis told me all I needed to know. This station "talks" to the dark matter universe about what goes on inside.
How did you cobble together a jammer so quickly?
I had one on me.
-Commander Andreyasn & Ennesby
2440 Howard Tayler
Welcome to your new bodies, gentlemen. If you'd like, I can help you start your owm 'dysmorphia is all in your head' support group.
-Doctor Bunnigus
3977 Orson Scott Card
Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said.
'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine.
'You should relax and enjoy it,' said Peter. 'It could be worse.'
'I don't know how.'
'It could be an anal exam.
1062 Dave Turner
Are you saying that the Rebel Alliance were religious terrorists and Yoda was a benefit cheat?
1007 Douglas Adams
The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.
1034 Meagan Spooner
All of it - for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.
1696 Toby Frost
Sorry, no. I refuse to join an army which practices human sacrifice and has no adequate pension plan.
2135 Bob Bello
The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!
3429 Ursula K. Le Guin
What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.
2242 Iain Banks
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
3118 Holly Black
He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
4469 Harold Camping
And now, we have no option. We can't say 'maybe' 'it's possible' 'it looks very probable...' No way! We have to say this is what the Bible teaches! This is fact! May 21, 2011 is the day of the Rapture, it is the day that Judgment Day begins...
4689 Harold Camping
Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth’s existence.
3398 Jaye Frances
Ah yes, now you’re beginning to feel it. It’s so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart - if I had one.
3175 David Kuklis
Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day.
3992 David Kuklis
Why do I feel like this is our destiny. There must be a reason why we have become our characters.
3593 Robert Jackson Bennett
Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. … it's vanity.
2866 Ann Gimpel
Because there wasn’t anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen table
with a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn’t happened, though. At least not yet.
2912 Susan Waterwyk
The evolution of mind requires a diet of knowledge.
3834 C.S. Lewis
I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.
4770 John Zakour
So, what you’re basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family.
1501 John Zakour
Thing is, I am not a big fan of hovers. I firmly believe that if man was meant to fly we’d have feathers, rubber bones, or better insurance coverage.
3644 John Zakour
My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn’t that bad (I have a strong heart), it’s the sudden stops that are painful. Believe me - I experienced it once.
4673 John Zakour
Walking into Nova Hollywood, I remembered why I didn’t come here more often. I like a good slice of cheese as much as the next guy, but this place would be too cheesy for a giant mutant rat who had been starving for a week.
2637 John Zakour
HARV, can you help at all here?” I asked, spinning downward.
“I am writing your obituary. Well, not so much writing it as updating it,” HARV told me.
If I lived, I was going to kill HARV.
2908 Nenia Campbell
She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever calls her that. The Scientists feel foolish addressing her in long, bewildering strings of alphanumerics. They have told her so themselves. To save time, they simply call her “Snow.
4201 Jennifer Silverwood
Arvex led the others into the light. “Wrecked if I ever dash miners again! This is one royal who won’t wipe their boots on our cousins anymore.” His grin made the carnage seem trivial.
2720 Jennifer Silverwood
It be more a feeling. Something swirls out in the beyond, something unnatural. It’s the reason so few venture to these worlds. The black spaces are a part of it, pieces unraveling pulling apart. We’ve come too far, waited too long to turn back now. Only death awaits us here.
2323 Jennifer Silverwood
Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you’re trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil.
1436 Jennifer Silverwood
There are moments in time when the axis of the universe shifts, when life as you knew it is irrevocably altered. When the hiss and grind of the gears fell silent, some deeply rooted instinctive part of me knew this was one of those moments.
4098 Derek Donais
I think you should listen to your heart. It is there the True One speaks to us most.
3790 Wayne Gerard Trotman
Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.
3239 Derek Donais
His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of pain or fear now. Mostly, it was eerily quiet. Even the insects had ceased their music.
4361 Emily St. John Mandel
If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importance of art in our lives.
3519 Kelly Steed
An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe.
4880 Serena M. Barbacetto
Quei due mondi erano specchi deformanti: si riflettevano a vicenda e gettavano luci e ombre l’uno sull’altro, come se s’interrogassero e ponessero in dubbio reciprocamente. L’illusione era così perfetta che dovevo ripetermi in continuazione che una di quelle dimensioni era reale, mentre l’altra non lo era.
3743 Milkweed L. Augustine
Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to "be" himself?
2774 Derek Donais
One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.
4616 Anna Carey
What If I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how It could happen-Caleb and me.
4232 William Gibson
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
4870 Hal Duncan
We insist that this stuff we call science fiction is not SCI-FI. For some in the ghetto of Genre this is axiomatic, a secret truth known only to the genre kids, that there is proper science fiction and then there’s that SCI-FI shit.
3031 Chaz Thompson
Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean."
-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN
4462 Howard Tayler
Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble, and everyone in the galaxy is a potential customer.
Even the people you're paid to shoot at?
Well, yeah. There are customers we serve, and customers we service.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn & General Tagon
1341 Lois Lowry
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
2817 Tamara Rose Blodgett
From DW:
I got it. “Here's the thing,” I said. "I'm not going to be the government's bitch.
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