Science Fiction Signature Quotes, page 4

"I speak Spanish to God, French to women, English to men, and Japanese to my horse." -- Buckaroo Banzai

"Bother," said Pooh.
"Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock phasers on the Heffalump.
Piglet, meet me in Transporter Room Three."

"Anybody ever notice that of everyone who ever spoke with Mr. Morden, it was only Vir that got exactly what he asked for, no strings attached?" -- Doug Berry

"They bought eyes and genitals on the open market. The eyes were green." -- Count Zero, William Gibson

"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." -- Robert Heinlein

"If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons, always take the weapons. " - Laurell K. Hamilton

"History is the trade secret of science fiction." -- Isaac Asimov

"[Public education] is a state-sponsered work camp for delinquents." -- Phoebe Spengler

"Pedantic circumlocution, my belligerent and prognathous friend, is the exclusively endemic prerogative of anyone who is assiduously, sedulously, and punctiously conversant in the fecund demesne of lexiconography -- in addition to being a synergistically expedient mode of communication… at least to those possessing a more than inherently strabismic intellect." -- William Harper Littlejohn

"Life is suffering, thus it is the act of the truly compassionate to EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE!" -- The Dalek Buddha

Kathleen Kennedy's house of Fake Star Wars content.

"…many consider Galaxy Quest to be the best Star Trek movie ever made."

Niven's Law: There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author.
The term is "idiot".

"You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!" -- H. Beam Piper

"Doc Savage has zero social graces due his upbringing, so every interaction he has with somone is uncomforable and amazingly hilarious." -- Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

"Doc Savage and his oddly assorted team might be considered the progenitors of today's Fantastic Four and many other teams of superheroes." -- Stan Lee

"Comic-book fans around the world know that Doc Savage is the inspiration for Superman. First name Clark, called 'Man of Bronze,' retrats to his 'Fortress of Solitude' in the Arctic." -- Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

Man of bronze and might
Doc Savage, hero of old
Justice is his might

Beauty and brains, Pat
Savage's cousin, fierce and true
Her wit saves the day

In space, five stations
A story of war and peace
Babylon 5 thrives

Deep space station hums,
Babylon 5, a beacon bright,
Peace, war, hope, in flight.

"Connect the Oscillation Overthruster to the Flux Capacitor using the Reciprocation Dingle Arm."

"It appears the hijinks are the only logical course of action." -- Spock, Spock Amok

"English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid..." -- H. Beam Piper

"John Scalzi is the Vanilla Ice of writers."

"[Steampunks are] Goths who have discovered brown and electricity." -- Tim Akers, The Eccentrics

"Sometimes putting your nose to the grindstone just gives you a bloody nose." -- The Middleman

"Mad science" means never stopping to ask "what's the worst thing that could happen?" -- Maxim 14, Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

"Tank with no healer and no DPS. What could go wrong?" -- Sir John Rast, The Barcadian Wild, by Tim Akers

"I'm not a bad man, just a very bad wizard.""

"John Sheridan, the SciFi version of Eisenhower; getting groups with very different motivations to work together, and a deep concern for the lives under his command."

"The wages of sin is death, but so is the salary of Virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays." -- Nanny Ogg, Witches Abroad by Terry Prachett

"Robert Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers to piss off his editor enough to break his juvenile contract. That freed him up to write books he wanted to write, like Stranger in a Strange Land."

Star Wars has been dead for a bit. Disney is just fucking the corpse while it puts drag queen make-up on it.

Thousand years ago we fought the iron demons and fucked the ones we didn't kill. They never came back.

"The year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail."

"The trouble with Nanny Ogg was that she always looked as if she was lying. Nanny Ogg had a pragmatic attitude to the truth; she told it if it was convenient and she couldn't be bother to make up something more interesting." -- "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Prachett

"This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone...Mayday, Mayday…we are under attack...main drive is gone...turret number one not responding...Mayday...losing cabin pressure fast...calling anyone...please help...This is Free Trader Beowulf...Mayday..." -- Traveller, 1977

"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show." -- Terry Pratchett

"When you look into the abyss, it's not supposed to wave back." -- Terry Pratchett

"Star Trek Deep Space 9 is better in the original Babylon 5."

"The thing about time loop jokes is, sure, they may be repetitive, but they never get old."

"...an over-the-top, sixteen-car-pileup-sugar-popped-cereal-bowl of a series that's not afraid to be everything your mother warned you about television: a cartoonishly extreme, randomly fantastic, special-effects laden, three-fisted walking-and-talking toy-line advertisement of an action-adventure-sci-fi comic book in which the fabric of reality barely survives in the end, and the journey invariably reveals a completely surreal strangeness behind everything we hold to be true." -- Javier Grillo-Marxuach's original pitch for The Middleman.

"The holodeck, just a bit of light porn before bed."

"Jack Burton is a Blue Blazer Regular."

"Washing machines are the biggest gossips ine the appliance world." -- "One Jump Ahead" by Mark L. Van Name

"Noir and Lovecraftian horror go together like whiskey and regret."

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works." -- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

"The names have been changed to protect the innocent. The guilty can go to hell." - John Ringo

"Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape." - Death, Hogfather by Terry Prachett

"It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved savage decisions, a kind of wanton brutality which civilized humankind works very hard to suppress." -- Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

"The slow, the dumb, and the unlucky on both sides were long dead. What was left was as mean as a rattlesnake with the clap." -- 1920: America's Great War by Robert Conroy

"Damocles hated him more than any of the other Deathlords, even more than Deathlord Osiris who no one liked because he never shut up about his Ph. D in Malevolence Studies; as if that made him a better genocidal psychopath than the Deathlords who only had degrees in STEM fields. (Sadism, Terror, Extermination, and Menace) or MBAs (Masters of Brutal Authority)." -- The Baddies by Victor Kilo

"Ideas for science fiction stories like ideas for anything else, are where you find them, usually in the most unlikely places. The only reliable source is a mind which asks itself a question like, 'What would happen if--?' or, 'Now what would this develop into, in a few centuries?' Or, 'How would so-and-so happen?' Anything at all, can trigger such a question, in your field if not in mine." - H. Beam Piper, "Double: Bill Symposium" interview

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