363 quotes found
“Holy Jesus God, it's the Gerps shootin' us up!" the manager shouted. He hadn't known whether to say Germans or Japs, and came out with both at once.”
“Humanity is a spectator sport. God is the spectator.”
“God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now hes having a grand old time punking the planet.”
“Perhaps it started as a whisper in some white wilderness ... ' Jaycee's voice.The pain and the consciousness flooded back as the semantic trigger threw off the protective blackout. The mongol's eye...”
“Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.”
“My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral.”
“The chaos and the confusion of all possible outcomes penetrated every pixel of computer generated light, and the waves of all sub-existential normality flooded by, creating an atmosphere of peacefu...”
“I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions.”
“The world turns because Man is inspired to better himself”
“The only thing what happens in the Houses of Parliament is the debate about foxes, badgers and moles”
“Don't Panic”
“Veins stood out in her temples as she struggled against her silence. No one noticed. Those words had already been used up, spent, thrown out into the atmosphere to dissipate without effect.”
“Caleb! The sharp, forceful tone demanded he halt. He found he had complied, but did not turn around. His voice sounded low and hoarse, likely because he couldnt breathe. Alex, I cant.”
“I shot the first planet this afternoon.”
“There are many places that are not made for staying," Heckleck said. "They are too harsh, too hard, and too far away from whatever you call home. You don't root where you don't have to, unless you'...”
“Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.”
“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why. Science fiction dreams of the things that never were and asks why not? The answer to which is often "Because it might not be very w...”
“Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than...”
“Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.”
“In other news, Its seven sols till the harvest, and I still havent prepared. For starters, I need to make a hoe. Also, I need to make an outdoor shed for the potatoes. I cant just pile them up outs...”
