Scifi Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Scifi Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
So High,— Vernor Vinge
So Low,
So Many Things to Know
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
simplicity can often become failure. If you're not careful— Dalian Artanian
Anything but chicken, and some honesty on the side, please.— S.L. Wallace
I know who I am, and I'm being true to myself.— S.L. Wallace
Refusing to listen to him any longer, Julian backs up. "Whenever you realize working together is in Summer's best interest, come find me, Boy Scout. Until then, I'll just pretend you don't exist." Then he walks away.— Laura Kreitzer
Gage glares at Julian's retreating form. His hand scrapes through his hair as he fumes. A guttural roar of rage crawls up his throat, and he kicks the sand.
Damn him and his stupid logic. He's right. And Gage knows he's right. But that doesn't mean he has to like it.
I'm going home." - Celeste— Almney King
"To never return?" - Uway
"Yes, show me the way to never return." - Celeste
ALL LIGHT WILL FALL
Sin's cold, calculating, and dangerous. She scares the shit outta me. I wouldn't want to meet her in a dark alley and that's the truth. Compared to her, you're a damned Sun angel."— Michelle O'Leary
"You just don't know her," Cass said in a soft voice, her mouth curving the slightest bit. "She's really very sweet."
"Sure," Nick scoffed. "Sweet as sugar. Let's get back to why you won't let me put my hands on you.
And in the silence what followed, I reckon our eyes had some long conversation our mouths could've never talked through. Some long, looking talk about things gone and long since said. About cries out in the night and some long ago tangling of limbs. And about them betrayals done time and time again - by both of us - what led to me pointing the Green Man's rifle at the man what once loved me under the Green Man's stars.— J.D. Jordan
Business or profession?'— Ray Bradbury
'I guess you'd call me a writer.'
No profession,' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.
Targets come big, he said. Time comes small.— J.D. Jordan
From: The Crown of Telus— William Laws
She opened her eyes, saw the crown sitting on her bedside table, and wished that it was all a dream. The crown of Trist was nothing special. It had no gemstones, no gold or silver filigree; instead it was simple, a metal circlet with four points and some inlay around a scratched and dented band.
"It's a working man's crown," she remembered her father holding the symbol of power out to her when she younger. "See the inlay? Three moons, one for each of our gods, over an oak which represents the mighty forests of the north, a shock of wheat for the Plainsmen to the south, a ship for the Gheltes to the west, and a hashap flower for the spice in the east. Nothing more. We don't need anymore."
Tears welled in her eyes. A working man's crown. Nothing fancy or bejeweled, a symbol of the power that guides the land and cares for its people.
This was going to be the first day she wore it as queen.
She reaches into the unknown and claims his hand, clasping it as if he might evaporate into the night. She's petrified. Not of the monstrosities prowling the island, but of the demon inside herself. The one about to rip apart her heart and mind to attain a selfish freedom. And it might all be a lie, placed there by the Society.— Laura Kreitzer
We love each other. You love me, you do." His eyes beseech me to believe it, to remember it, to feel it.— Siobhan Davis
Brother, when you've been here as long as I have, you'll come to discover there are only one or two essential things worth living for. Unique to you and you alone. My honor is one of them for me. I keep my honor by keeping the relic out of their hands.— Brodi Ashton
What's with savage humans always wanting to cannibalize us?" Jaden asks as she runs past Summer to check for any more of the Tainted around the corner.— Laura Kreitzer
"They want to suck your blood," Rob says in a Romanian accent.
Jaden snorts. Too bad humor won't help them out of this mess.
what I like and what I need's two different things.— J.D. Jordan
He traces a line across my face with the tip of his finger, and a moment passes between us. Our eyes feast on one another as his finger continues its journey, carefully caressing my lips. My mouth parts slightly. Leaning down ever so slowly, he holds my gaze as he captures my lips.— Siobhan Davis
Not much of a childhood, Cass. When did you get to play?"— Michelle O'Leary
With a frown, she said, "I played."
"You took apart your robot dog.
No. Some you put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Reckon we'll have to see, yet, which way this is going to turn.— J.D. Jordan
Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. "So he's been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued by a sun priest offering to pleasure - "— Michelle O'Leary
"Every nook and cranny," Marietta interrupted dryly and Gabrielle tipped her head back with a throaty laugh.
not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction.— J.D. Jordan
But tell you true, I honestly didn't think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world's full of them.— 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
Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.— Annalee Newitz
For such a worldly, surly bastard, Bas had always been incredibly innocent. Always seen the best in people.— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.— J.D. Jordan
Don't talk. Don't sputter out a solitary protest or it will be your last. Take me to them."— G.S. Jennsen
"Who the f**k are you?"
He palmed the man's forehead and slammed his skull against the wall. "I said don't talk, and you want to do as I say. I'm the one thing monsters like you and your kind fear. I'm what haunts your nightmares and hunts you in the darkness.
A place without meaning is no place to be.— Wayne Gerard Trotman
The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.— Arthur C. Clarke
Can you even have human nature if you don't have the capacity to feel?" I ask.— Ellis Adler
"Do you mean on some kind of existentialist 'what are we if not the things we feel' kind of way?" I don't know what he means by existentialist. I say as much. He laughs. I entertain the idea of stabbing him for several minutes.
All I can think about is how I wanted to share those firsts with Logan and how I never knew it was an impossibility because it had already been taken away from me.— Siobhan Davis
She and Kennedy both dove for the power connector; Kennedy reached it first and yanked out the connection as Alex landed on her stomach beside it.— G.S. Jennsen
The air settled down until the fine hairs on her arm no longer stood on end. Alex dropped her forehead to the platform and started laughing. "Just like university, isn't it?"
"Almost - nothing's actually blown up yet.
The woman's gaze sent chills racing down his spine. The diabolical, aberrantly predatory arch of her lips curdled his blood. Seriously, his blood must be curdling back at the lab right now.— G.S. Jennsen
"Nice illusion. I'm definitely feeling the evil vibe here."
She stood and rounded the desk with perfect grace. "There is no illusion. Explain yourself quickly now, before I grow bored by your presence and dispense with it.
There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.— Jessica Khoury
I'm not bipolar, I've just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.— Daniel O'Malley
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:— Olaf Stapledon
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.
This was my world: cold, tangled and distorted. -Keira— S.L. Wallace
The Pig Chef was - if you thought about it - one of the more sinister icons of American roadside art. Danny's personal totem. What kind of pig is a butcher? What kind of pig cooks barbeque? A traitor pig, a killer pig, a doomed preterite pig destined for eternal damnation. Danny's Pig Chefs showed the full weight of this knowledge in their mocking eyes and snaggled snouts.— Rudy Rucker
It had been bound to happen. If anything, technology created a space for the strange and the afraid. Some would argue that the environment had created those people, but I doubted that. Those who flocked to technology as a place to hide and to fit in would have found something else, but instead they found another life.— J.P. Carver
Crushed sandstone sifted through Caleb's fingers, insubstantial as dust. A breeze caught the debris mid-fall and spirited it away before it could join the ashes blanketing the ground.— G.S. Jennsen
He stopped in the middle of what had once been a street, his arms pulled in at his sides, his fists balled in barely restrained fury.
That got me to laughing too. His laughter, like his yelling, got into you until you was right soaked with it. So you couldn't help yourself. But it felt good. Light. I tell you, I hadn't felt like that in a long while.— J.D. Jordan
You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.— Wayne Gerard Trotman
One of the first rules the Emperor had drummed into her [Mara Jade] so long ago was to blend in as best she could with her surroundings— Timothy Zahn
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Goodnight baby, sleep in peace. After you kill that bitch!"— Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Goodnight mom!
Can't count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.— J.D. Jordan
If you get the urge, then write about it.— Terry Brooks
The world of a cat is unlike any other. What is seen through their eyes cannot be understood by anyone besides another cat. Their world is filled with secrets and adventures that are always present and forever changing. To look at the world as a cat is to look through the veil of reality.— Alex G. Zarate
What the Lady was happening? The man had his mouth smashing on Tarin's, and his tongue was shoving at Tarin's tongue. Tarin tried to scream. The men did eat boys. It wasn't just a scary fire-rumor. He bucked his body and writhed. He was going to be consumed alive!— Syd McGinley
"Lady!" he bawled like a little kid. It sort of worked.
The man moved his mouth and laughed.
"Now, no fussing. I won't hurt you if you're a good boy."
"Don't eat me," moaned Tarin. He was too scared to be brave. This was why no boys ever escaped from the Before Times buildings. The men ate them! No wonder men were so sleek and strong. They had boy meat to get them through the winter
It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.— Clyde DeSouza
And," my dad concluded, calming down a little, "all our dignity consists in just that. I mean, man's little and can't fill time and space, but he sure can make use of the brain God gave him.— Philip K. Dick
Life involves a lot of unknowns.— S.L. Wallace
Jeb didn't say nothing. Didn't smile none, neither. Didn't even move except for the color running right out of him.— J.D. Jordan
You aren't merely the greatest love of my life - you're the only love of my life. You are my beating heart, my conscious mind, the essence of my soul, the blood that flows through my veins, the tenacity that drives me to lead our nation into the future. Without you, none of that exists. I can't exist. I can't go on without you.— Siobhan Davis
Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. "Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.— Jeff Ferry
May it be written. May it be done.— Wayne Gerard Trotman
It was killing him, seeing her this way. She was not meant to be uncertain, timid or fearful; the woman he knew exuded confidence so fiercely it might as well be a damn spiritual aura. He needed to fix this.— G.S. Jennsen
"It's time to adjust your perspective. You want to show the politicians on Earth they don't rule the galaxy? Well, let's show them.
You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.— E.J. Koh
Oh get over it Cecilia! You are no longer human. Such decorum doesn't exist amongst our kind— Eve Masters
It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.— G.S. Jennsen
I was the luckiest girl. Don't you think because I didn't have no proper man or husband I was anything else. Wasn't no place I'd rather be than right there. Even now, I pine for that uncomfortable rock. Because he was watching over me and loneliness was some far off thing, echoing off the Rock from other folks. Wasn't nothing could ruin it for me.— J.D. Jordan
A kind of childlike purity to her repose that made the thought of kissing her seem vile.— Jessica Khoury
He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.— Cory Doctorow
Nothing haunts the world more than the words of the dead.— Susan Waterwyk
What if winning the gold medal at the Olympics wasn't the end?— Amanda Dubin
What if ... it was only the beginning?
Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.— Wayne Gerard Trotman
One of Zaphod's heads looked away. The other turned round to see what the first was looking at, but it wasn't looking at anything very much.— Douglas Adams
And if revenge was all I had, then I was goddamned if it wouldn't be enough.— J.D. Jordan
The hoverlanes were murder.— Troy Denning
There have been plenty of occasions in my life when I've felt small and insignificant, when I've wished to be something I'm not, but when Logan holds me like this, kisses me like this - like the universe starts and ends with me - I don't want to be anyone but myself.— Siobhan Davis
My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood.— Kerry Alan Denney
All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being that the words got in the way.— Terry Pratchett
Archie wasn't waiting for her at the attic. She didn't consider that. He was— Perie Wolford
probably giving her time to set and collect a trap, about a week or so as she guessed, a testing period. He couldn't trust her just yet, but she could tell that there was also more to it. He needed to distance himself, from her, because he was afraid to love her. That was it. Loving her was his flaw, weakness, and he could not have a weakness, not while at war. He wouldn't show up, not for some time. She knew that. The longer it would take for him to come back, the more he loved her.
The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.— Wayne Gerard Trotman
We always had the greatest arguments over sex and fishing.— Douglas Adams
I really, really need some help and advice. I'm scared ... I'm scared of my own home, of my own daughter!— Meinos Kaen
God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good. If He is active here, He is doing that now, although our eyes can't perceive it; the process lies hidden beneath the surface of reality, and emerges only later. To, perhaps, our waiting heirs. Paltry people who will not know the dreadful war we've gone through, and the losses we took, unless in some footnote in a minor history book they catch a notion. Some brief mention. With no list of the fallen.— Philip K. Dick
She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh— Kim Cormack
She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions.— Laura Kreitzer
A good SciFi Author shows you an alien world; a great one takes you there.— Ray Jay Perreault
What is damage but forcing yourself, memories of yourself, onto someone else? Coloring someone else's body. In reality, it's sort of romantic. It's why we love to hurt each other.— E.J. Koh
Was like the Green Man said, some you got to put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Often the latter, with me. But some, you just got to put behind you.— J.D. Jordan
He checked her over while mentally checking himself. "Environment suits sealed up. Breather masks in hand. Daemons. Blades. Transmitters. Healthy respect for the adversary - you've got that, right?"— G.S. Jennsen
One corner of her mouth curled up. "Absolutely.
If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.— E.J. Koh
Caleb reached up and slid the tie out of her hair to let it fall free. "You were crazy to do it. But I love you because you're wild and fearless, not in spite of it, and I know the price."— G.S. Jennsen
He sensed her cringe against him. "Which is?"
"At random and unexpected times, you terrify the life out of me.
The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.— Henry Mosquera
Science is no longer fiction,— Natasha Tsakos
but Reality may become one.
The story so far:— Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?— Clyde DeSouza
If we don't dream. Then we will never know what we can become.— Dalian Artanian
I don't understand humans." Caradoc shook his head. "It takes their brightest minds decades to plan an unmanned voyage to the nearest planet, which can take a year to travel each way. Yet they expect there to be aliens travelling distances it takes light decades to reach us, just for a weekend of bum fun with a total stranger without asking their permission, before dropping them off where they found them. They're just dying to believe the weirdest, least plausible things possible.— Dylan Perry
Some people never changed, could always be depended on to be exactly the way they should.— Jessica Khoury
I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain't no trouble of his what ain't trouble of mine, too.— J.D. Jordan
Narrow, angular features, pouty lips and hatred-filled pale, washed-out blue irises glared back at him.— G.S. Jennsen
Caleb flashed the young man a malevolent smirk and readied his blade. "Jude Winslow, I presume.
He had a ruggedness about him that was appealing. Despite his groomed presentation, his chiseled face was shadowed with an attractive scruff of hair. His beautiful smile burned into me, melting me from the inside out while it exposed perfect white teeth embellished with alluring fangs. For a moment, I allowed myself to indulge in the idea of them sinking into my neck. Would it provoke the ecstasy I imagined or the horror I feared?— J.M. Northup
I like to eat chicken, but I don't like live chickens. With their feathers and beaks and weird noises and flapping wings." He visibly shivers, then points above his right eye. "How'd you think I got this scar?"— Laura Kreitzer
"I thought you said your sister threw something at you when you were a kiddie."
Rob gives him a meaningful look.
"A chicken?"
Rob points at his scar again. "Them things are no joke.
Nowhere on Earth was stupidity prized anymore.— Mark Landau
The couch and I were what I would describe as frenemies. I loved to hate it. It was too small for my frame. I had tried to tell my wife that fact when we bought it off of Craigslist, but she assured me that it went perfectly with our room decor and it was a good deal.— Anna M. Aquino
For the first time as a scrabbling, bickering species we stood united. Every sodding person on the planet looked up today and whispered the same question, whether it be in awe, greed, or terror. What's Out there? Answers were sure to be forthcoming, ready or not.— B.P. Gregory
If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.— G.S. Jennsen
If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.
