Scifi Quotes

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

~ Tim Burton

The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

~ Douglas Adams

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

~ Johnny Hart

Bite me. -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

~ J.d. Robb

I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.

~ Destinee Hardwick

Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued by a sun priest offering to pleasure—” “Every nook and cranny,” Marietta interrupted dryly and Gabrielle tipped her head back with a throaty laugh.

~ Michelle O'leary

She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the others. “You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core. But I will tell you what I’ve told the others. This is your last chance. You screw up with me and you get shipped up river. I don’t offer second chances—I offer last chances.”Nope, he didn’t like it. She saw the hand not holding the bottle of beer curl into a fist.Sin and Del, from Sunscapes Trilogy, Book 1: Last Chance

~ Michelle O'leary

Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time.--Mea Brin, The Huntress

~ Michelle O'leary

In fighting those who serve devils one always his this on one's side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us. The moment we disable the human pawns enough to make them useless to Hell, their own Masters finish the work for us. they break their tools.

~ C.s. Lewis

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

~ Paul Di Filippo

I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too.

~ J.d. Jordan

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

~ Frank Herbert

What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?

~ Clyde Desouza

The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this.The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem.This is:Change.Read it through again and you'll get it.

~ Douglas Adams

I think we have different value systems. —ArthurWell mine's better. —Ford

~ Douglas Adams

Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt like the sun was shining from his heart. - from the novel Brainjob by David Sloma.

~ David Sloma

Science is the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.8 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).

~ Torin Sarasas

Science is about the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.7 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).

~ Torin Sarasas

Science is no longer fiction,but Reality may become one.

~ Natasha Tsakos

These scars that we have... they don't go away. They only fade with time, but they're still hauntingly there.

~ Taylor Keys

Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand.

~ L.t. Hill

On the inner side of the aquarium of reality, beliefs define the area of the prison.

~ Robert Neil Fleischer

It was strange to us that none of these three victims made any attempt to resist the attack. Indeed, not one inhabitant in any of these worlds considered for a moment the possibility of resistance. In every case the attitude to disaster seemed to express itself in such terms as these:To retaliate would be to wound our communal spirit beyond cure. We choose rather to die. The theme of spirit that we have created must inevitably be broken short, whether by the ruthlessness of the invader or by our own resort to arms. It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit. Such as it is, the spirit that we have achieved is fair; and it is indestructibly woven into the tissue of the cosmos. We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be. We die knowing that the promise of further glory outlives us in other galaxies. We die praising the Star Maker, the Star Destroyer.

~ Olaf Stapledon

You help us, they’ll lock you up for the rest of your life.

~ Henry V. O'neil

He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he’d peed himself, it didn’t matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.

~ Henry V. O'neil

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

~ Cory Doctorow

She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.

~ Meg Howrey

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

~ Larry Niven

Someone once told me that when you die every deed you ever committed, whether on behalf of good or bad is represented in the form of pebbles. Black ones for every deed done in the name of evil, white ones for every act of good. The pebbles are weighed upon a great scale, and if the white stones outweigh the black then your soul is granted peace.”He opens one bleary eye. “What’s the punishment for too many black acts?”“There is no worse punishment than standing on the threshold of heaven alone.

~ Ellis Adler

The first thing I understand is pain.

~ Ellis Adler

May your song guide you home.

~ Sophia Elaine Hanson

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.

~ Brent Weeks

Stop tormenting Derian.”“Me?” Edgar gaped at her with a clearly fake look of innocence.“Yes, you.”“And what about you? When will you stop tormenting him?” Edgar moved past the young queen to approach the unmoving captain. He circled the man as though he were checking out a statue on display “I’m not tormenting him; why would you say that?”“You have the poor guy believing you actually intend to marry him.” Edgar stopped to fix the captain’s collar, raising it up high and stiff around his

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Eena worried to Ian in her thoughts. (You’re not going to let him walk away thinking what I think he’s thinking, are you?)(You won't change his mind. The evidence is a little suggestive. You should have just stayed behin

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Eena turned aside, breathing shallowly as her mind raced with questions. She was glad he couldn’t read the confusion that swooped her up like a passing tornado. Was it even possible to genuinely love more than one man? Yes. Oh, yes.She knew it because her heart irrefutably felt it. She loved Derian; it was true. She wasn’t trying to convince herself of it, no matter what Edgar said. She yearned deeply for her captain. But she loved Ian too. She always had. Only she purposefully, appropriately, had set those feelings aside when he made the decision to pursue Angelle. But Angelle was gone now. No, Eena thought to herself, this changes nothing. She scolded her heart for longing for something spent and ended, for even considering the possibility. Her with Ian? No, no, it had to remain in the past.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The Imagination of the Mind is the Treasury that although liable to theft, never ceases to grow.

~ Thesleepingsorcerer

Nowhere on Earth was stupidity prized anymore.

~ Mark Landau

You win the Game,” Vitas says. His features obscured under the long black robe, regal-like modesty against our animalistic near nudity.― Ant Ryan, Celestial Spheres

~ Ant Ryan

Adapt or die. It was savagely simple. -- CelesteALL LIGHT WILL FALL

~ Almney King

The future will be different from how they have told us

~ John Nexdar