Science Fiction Quotes

Inevitably, his vision verged toward the fantastic; he published a scattering of stories - most included in this volume - which appeared to conform to that genre at least to the degree that the fuller part of his vision could be seen as mysteries. For Woolrich it all was fantastic; the clock in the tower, hand in the glove, out of control vehicle, errant gunshot which destroyed; whether destructive coincidence was masked in the naturalistic or the incredible was all pretty much the same to him. RENDEZVOUS IN BLACK, THE BRIDE WORE BLACK, NIGHTMARE are all great swollen dreams, turgid constructions of the night, obsession and grotesque outcome; to turn from these to the fantastic was not to turn at all. The work, as is usually the case with a major writer was perfectly formed, perfectly consistent, the vision leached into every area and pulled the book together. Jane Brown's Body is a suspense story. THE BRIDE WORE BLACK is science fiction. PHANTOM LADY is a gothic. RENDEZVOUS IN BLACK was a bildungsroman. It does not matter.

~ Barry N. Malzberg

I really, really need some help and advice. I'm scared... I'm scared of my own home, of my own daughter!

~ Meinos Kaen

And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now... or maybe not now. Maybe in a while. But he'll be pounding and... will there be blood? I like to imagine so. Yes, I rather think there will be blood. Lots of blood. Blood in extraordinary quantities.

~ Alan Moore

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

~ Scott Westerfeld

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

~ Ernest Cline

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

~ Douglas Adams

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

~ Frank Herbert

No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed 'cause he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.

~ Neil Gaiman

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

~ Larry Niven

Are you afraid?Yes.Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms.I am still afraid.

~ Amie Kaufman

There's the bullshit you know that you know, the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know, and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

~ Rick Yancey

Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.

~ Scott Westerfeld

Madness, and then illumination.

~ Orson Scott Card

I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.

~ Neal Stephenson

Madge: I don't know why I keep shouting at them.The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.~ The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe

~ Steven Moffat

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

~ William S. Burroughs

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

~ D.j. Machale

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.

~ Isaac Asimov

Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope

~ Pittacus Lore

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics

~ Marissa Meyer

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

~ Jo Walton

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

~ Steven Moffat

Vampires are people too!

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

~ Orson Scott Card

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

~ Neal Stephenson

All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void...

~ William Gibson

You might get only one shot. So shoot. You know who said that?The rifle clatters to the bloody floor.Hanna FUCKING Donnelly. That's who.

~ Jay Kristoff

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

~ Margaret Atwood

There are always possibilities.

~ Jack B. Sowards

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

~ Isaac Asimov

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

~ William Gibson

Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching force for the creation of the habit of anticipation. Our children should be studying Arthur C. Clarke, William Tenn, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Robert Sheckley, not because these writers can tell them about rocket ships and time machines but, more important, because they can lead young minds through an imaginative exploration of the jungle of political, social, psychological, and ethical issues that will confront these children as adults.

~ Alvin Toffler

Resistance, however, is useless. (1939)

~ A.e. Van Vogt

You can dance. You can make me laugh.You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all. Everybody loves you. You can charm the birds out of the sky, But I, I've got one thing. You always know just what to say And when to go, But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark, But I've got one thing: I loved you better. Last night I woke up,Saw this angel. He flew in my window. And he said, Girl, pretty proud of yourself, huh? And I looked around and said, Who me? And he said, The higher you fly, the faster you fall.He said, Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's rainbow. Send it up. Watch it rise. See it fall, Gravity's Angel.

~ Laurie Anderson

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him, he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.

~ Neal Stephenson

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

~ Max Brooks

Conceited little mega-puppy.

~ Douglas Adams