Science Fiction Quotes

“A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.”
― Victor Hugo

“Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“Vampires…always so overdramatic.”
― P.D. Alleva, The Rose Vol. 1

“I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters.”
― Andrea K. Höst, Stray

“I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted... hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of the rest.

In the Derry of 1958, the most up-to-date computers were the size of small housing developments, and the local paper was no help. What did that leave? I remembered a sociology prof I’d had in college - a sarcastic old bastard - who used to say, When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies.”
― Greg Cox, The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh

“It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.”
― J.M. Dattilo

“No, when the time comes, I’m sure I’ll kill just like everybody else. I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to…to show the Capitol they don’t own me.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Case shuffled into the nearest door and watched the other passengers as he rode. A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging toward a trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting. The techs licked their perfect lips nervously and eyed the Christian Scientists from beneath lowered metallic lids. The girls looked like tall, exotic grazing animals, swaying gracefully and unconsciously with the movement of the train, their high heels like polished hooves against the gray metal of the car’s floor. Before they could stampede, take flight from the missionaries, the train reached Case’s station.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.”
― E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops

“WICKED is good”
― James Dashner The Death Cure, The Maze Runner Trilogy

“I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me”
― Carlyle Labuschagne, The Broken Destiny

“The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.”
― Kameron Hurley, The Stars Are Legion

“Trad moves to get a better view of the water falling in a continuous, glistening cascade from the uppermost level of the atrium to the lagoon below.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Muses are the Mata Haris of inspiration.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!”
― Dan Abnett, Prospero Burns

“... we know where this will end,’ he says, gesturing his ageing body. ‘... I am after all nothing more than my roots – a typical Amunarainith...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“... catching sight of the metal fused onto stripped bone, ligaments visible where the two meet as the advancing metal and flesh army stride easily across the granite steps.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Imagine that every man’s mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands. They would all be part of one continent, but the individuality would have gone”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

“That’s Vegan not Vulcan!”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Jiggling her way around the four-poster, she grabs Nate’s wrist and gropes for his pulse.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Having forgotten how insanely chaotic the Central Bazaar in the Merchant Sector can get, he is instantly reminded just how exciting it is.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Without warning, the room is immersed in the images of battle, burning buildings, all around them people running and screaming. Trad ducks instinctively as a fireball hurls in his direction and Veebee retreats to her home.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“He licked my face, sir.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.”
― Mark Hodder, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

“... you of all people should know that all is not as it may appear.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“I like what you’ve done to the place,’ he says, eyeing the ripped fabric and scorched stuffing hanging from the ceiling and walls.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Catching sight of the rotund Levaedet Ringmaster striding through the crowds, high above them on his disproportionately long legs, she allows herself a moment to imagine the smell of Candyfloss mingling with toffee apples and salted popcorn; the screams of laughter from the carousel and Ferris wheel...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“Such a long time since I’ve had to bring someone back from the brink of death...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue