Sci Fi Quotes

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

~ Orson Scott Card

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

~ 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

~ 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.

~ 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.

~ Howard Tayler

You're more mean-spirited than I remember you being.It's this organic body. Hologram fur wasn't itchy.

~ Howard Tayler

Welcome to your new bodies, gentlemen. If you'd like, I can help you start your own 'dysmorphia is all in your head' support group.

~ Howard Tayler

Does that mean that if we shave all the Ob'enn they'll be nice?

~ 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.

~ Howard Tayler

OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure!

~ Douglas Adams

I suppose there are some advantages to this place,' he admitted. 'I bet it's fucking raining in Stirling.

~ Christopher Brookmyre

A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.

~ Tom Kane

He created waterfalls for her out of the morning dew, and from the colored pebbles of a meadow stream he made a necklace more beautiful than emeralds, sadder than pearls. She caught him in her net of silken hair, she carried him down, down, into deep and silent waters, past obliteration. He showed her frozen stars and molten sun; she gave him long, entwined shadows and the sound of black velvet. He reached out to her and touched moss, grass, ancient trees, iridescent rocks; her fingertips, striving upwards, brushed old planets and silver moonlight, the flash of comets and the cry of dissolving suns.

~ Robert Sheckley

Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.

~ Stanisław Lem

How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? 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 mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

~ 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.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.

~ Derek Donais

There are those who like things just they are and will stop at nothing to keep them that way, and those who understand that change is the natural order of the universe, and one must change with it.

~ Margaret Wander Bonanno

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...

~ Harold Camping

Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth’s existence.

~ Harold Camping

Whatever your sexual orientation, whatever your ethnicity, whatever your age or personal experience, it is my hope you will find a hero somewhere here you can relate to, that speaks to the world as you see it. Even better: there is a good chance you will find some heroes who are deeply, fundamentally different from yourself. I don't have much patience with readers who yearn to explore incredible worlds and mind-bending situations but grow cold at the idea of imagining their way into different political ideas, different faiths, a different gender, a different skin, a different life.

~ Joe Hill

We worship life on Usonia. Nature... The moon, the sun, the stars, the rivers.

~ L.t. Gibbons

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

~ Howard Tayler

I think you should listen to your heart. It is there the True One speaks to us most.

~ Derek Donais

The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.

~ Keiichi Sigsawa

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.

~ Gini Koch

From DW:I got it. “Here's the thing,” I said. I'm not going to be the government's bitch.

~ Tamara Rose Blodgett

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.

~ Jaye Frances

Victor wrapped his fingers over my hand, pressing his face against my palm. “You’re the bravest girl I’ve ever met. I’m so incredibly proud of you.”“Who knew that one day the word someone would use to describe me is brave. Life is very unpredictable.” I chuckled. “There are many other words I could think of to describe you but I’m not really good at flattery.

~ A.b. Whelan

Kumquats?I've had a few.But then again, tofu dementia.

~ Robert Leland Taylor

Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades.

~ Loveless

Being on the edge is always worse than going through

~ Joseph Brown

You've never had wok-seared spicy broccoli until you've had takeout trans-temporal wok-seared spicy broccoli delivered by a copy of yourself.

~ Magnus Von Black

Criminal activity exploded throughout the city – thugs multiplied by the thousands. Without fear of rebuke, there was nothing to stop them. It is the ultimate penalty that comes with tolerating the intolerant.

~ Sarah Brownlee

Their blissfully soft texture calmed me but alerted me at the same time. I couldn't explain the gentle spark of light that dripped off the edges. And of course, the aqua trim felt way too familiar.

~ Dianne Bright

With the fading of the final notes the saxophone player turns to me. Its baleful, otherworldly gaze bores into my soul. It lowers its instrument to the disc and extends a podgy, grey hand to point at me. It looms closer, its head expanding, arm elongating. A clammy digit brushes the tip of my nose and a tingling numbness spreads over my face like an ice-cold spider web. A voice like the rustle of dried leaves whispers inside my head: “Forever…” The last syllable stretches, just like my grandfather’s dying breath. And the beady, black orbs are no longer eyes but deep, obsidian pits…

~ Scott Kaelen

A crush of bodies surrounded the featureless monument. The enraged dead clambered atop their ghastly kin. Caiaphas tucked his knees to his chest and hugged his legs tightly, staring at the scores of ragged, flailing hands as they scratched for purchase over the edge of the cylinder. Metal thrummed and thunder roared, filling his head. Now there were words within the deafening roar. “Straaaange,” they seemed to say. “Daaaace…” “Straaaangerrrr…” Then a quick, awful chant: “CAIAPHAS! FOREVER! CAI—” And with a piercing whistle it ended as his eardrums burst.

~ Scott Kaelen

Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day.

~ David Kuklis

Why do I feel like this is our destiny. There must be a reason why we have become our characters.

~ David Kuklis