Sci-fi Quotes

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the ...

Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlanti...

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.

Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said.'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine.'You should relax and enjoy it,...

Issib wasn't thrilled to see him. I'm busy and don't need interruptions." "This is the household lib...

To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.

God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good. If He is active here, He is doing that now...

No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apart...

We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. St...

Are―you dying?" she asked."Just can't breathe. This air.""Poor, poor―good lord. I've forgotten your ...

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such t...

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a...

He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books...

Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he kn...

Anything which is physically possible can be made financially possible, if the people of a state des...

He created waterfalls for her out of the morning dew, and from the colored pebbles of a meadow strea...

I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen ato...

Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, ...

We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. ...

If I got to pick anyone, anyone at all, to be stranded on a deserted planet with, it would be you, I...

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub...

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solut...

Only the framing material," Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the ...

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simp...

They can send death at once, but life is slower...

An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ...

While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers.

The light is the left hand of darkness

How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people...

The king was pregnant.

They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. T...

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what ...

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a gli...

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, somethin...

In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-bestscience writer dedicates th...

Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He wo...

Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared t...

I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and...

I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and...

«I love both her and them. I have come to understand that she is what they are. A woman accepts a ma...

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

Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewe...

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant fo...

I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my hea...

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

I really don't know who I am, so I don't know when to stop, so when I see a big threatening button t...

Your past is my Future.

We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford."...""And that's the deciding factor. We can...

Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophica...

Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophica...

The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was ...

This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the ha...

So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy wit...

The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.

Share and Enjoy' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Compla...

OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is sto...

Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momen...

It could be a work of art among vendettas

They compose poems to their knives.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'Fo...

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

May the Force be with you.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have...

Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ ...

I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes look...

Read the vladimir tod series

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap abo...

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity...

Kandinski looked up. 'Do you read science fiction?' he asked matter-of-factly.'Not as a rule,' Ward ...

He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give ...

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lo...

We were the lucky ones, the notthese, we were the ones who had survived the aerial bombing and fire-...

Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly differnt light than everybody else.you ...

Whatever your sexual orientation, whatever your ethnicity, whatever your age or personal experience,...

Whatever your sexual orientation, whatever your ethnicity, whatever your age or personal experience,...

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us...

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the o...

Man is an endangered species.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserabl...

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about me...

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pa...

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.