Science Fiction Quotes

Open up your Mind Rockin' Minds to the Cold Hard Reality that is my Songs & Dreams.

The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.

Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.

Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...?

She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.

To be touched with love was a kind of miracle.

She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.

My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.

I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.

I was never sure what possessed Guy and Teo, 2 alien princelings to land in Paris that day.

A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.

Eternity is a lie and Chiron was the messenger.

When mankind ascended to the stars, he came no closer to God.

Humanity rose to the stars, but never found paradise.

It’s a violent galaxy filled with cutthroat pirates, cyber-mercenaries and star messiahs. If peace comes, it will have to steal in like a thief.

Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.

There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished.

...but there's always he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I mean.""Wow that would be terrific, " I said

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

'You're like starlight, ' Cam whispered, and his teeth scraped up my jaw. I shivered. 'I could lose myself in you.'

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh ?

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction novel emerges from the cosmic mix.

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.

An infinitely unpleasant fraction of a second is a small price to pay for the opportunity to stride across eternity.

Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn't." - Malcador

The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one

The death takes a moment and life lasts forever. Why spend eternity worried about a singularity?

Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We’re all made of the same star dust.

The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to do things the wrong way, we can never learn how to do them the right way.

I'll show you my theory, if you show me yours.

If the lies don't kill you, the truth will.

He let out a short laugh. "You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?

People say, 'Time heals all wounds.' That may be true, but relocating to an alternate reality can sure help too." -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1941

Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.

There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.

Was he leaving home, or going home?

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good, " but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.

This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us--

We got places to go, people to meet, and things to blow up!That needs to be cross-stiched on a pillow

i can wait wait wait..to go to the other side of life..but dis wait seems like d rainbow in the night..so dat u have to wonder about the presence of sun in no light

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

Sometimes it's hard for me to understand that people can believe in me, that they can trust that I'll be anything more than the sum of the skeletons in my closet. But I can be. And I am.

Every day we are challenged by events, people and situations that are extremely frustrating and anger producing.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.