Science Fiction Quotes
Science Fiction Quote of the day
It’s getting a little chilly in here! Why don’t we sit by the fireplace and I’ll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!
Life, ” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.
The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.
Zaphod had never heard of this. He believed that he had heard of all the fun things in the Galaxy, so he assumed that the Total Perspective Vortex was not fun.
This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be the perfect time to disembark.
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.
Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.
In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?
...Changelessness is decay.""A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.""Changelessness is a change for the worse...
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Don't blame you, " said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.
I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.
You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
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Do you love me?” His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fool’s chance at that
Is happiness found in the nest where there's no hardship? Or is it in the outer world with vast sky? When the time comes, what would you keep and what would you abandon?
The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.
Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could saw away ragged pieces of flesh and leave her to bleed.
But it must be inconvenient to not be able to remember your name. I'll give you my last name, if you want.
Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.
We, the people with special powers use our abilities for peace. That's the mission that was given to us by the World.
She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.
A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”~Sherlock Holmes
We are all of the same substance, the same life. Though there are many differences between us, those are merely the shadows that delineate our boundaries. Our light is the same.
