Sci Fi Quotes - Page 4

I think you should listen to your heart. It is there the True One speaks to us most.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of pain or fear now. Mostly, it was eerily quiet. Even the insects had ceased their music.

Hello fake Everett children.

If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importance of art in our lives.

An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe.

Quei due mondi erano specchi deformanti: si riflettevano a vicenda e gettavano luci e ombre l’uno sull’altro, come se s’interrogassero e ponessero in dubbio reciprocamente. L’illusione era così perfetta che dovevo ripetermi in continuazione che una di quelle dimensioni era reale, mentre l’altra non lo era.

May the scribes record it.

Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to "be" himself?

One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.

What If I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how It could happen-Caleb and me.

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

We insist that this stuff we call science fiction is not SCI-FI. For some in the ghetto of Genre this is axiomatic, a secret truth known only to the genre kids, that there is proper science fiction and then there’s that SCI-FI shit.

Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean."
-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN

Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble, and everyone in the galaxy is a potential customer.

Even the people you're paid to shoot at?

Well, yeah. There are customers we serve, and customers we service.
-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn & General Tagon

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.

From DW:

I got it. “Here's the thing,” I said. "I'm not going to be the government's bitch.