Best Ellen Ripley Quotes

#1. If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.

Kathe Koja

#2. Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. (Spoken) words are considered an 'expense'. 'Speech' should not be spent away. Speech is wealth. It should be 'counted' upon spending. Does anyone ever give out money without counting it?

Dada Bhagwan

#4. It's funny that these people think I'm so powerful. I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care. There are people who want to kill me and I'm always like, 'Well, get in line, darling.

Conchita Wurst

#5. The faint of lemon verbena surrounded her, floating gently from Eleanor Butler's silk gown and silken hair. It was the fragrance that had always been part of Ellen O'Hara, the scent for Scarlett of comfort, of safety, of love, of life before the War

Alexandra Ripley

#6. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. (Ellen Ripley)

Alan Dean Foster

#7. I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

Billy Bob Thornton

#8. Life is safer alone. There's no truer fact.

Bijou Hunter

#9. When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

Seneca The Younger

#10. What would Ripley do? When in a jam, Carrow often thought of how Ellen Ripley, the legendary badasstress of the Alien quadrilogy, would figure her way out.

Kresley Cole

#11. Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#13. There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton

#14. It surprised him that he was remembering all this. Maybe it was the walking. Maybe you saw even more than the land when you got out of the car and used your feet.

Rachel Joyce

#15. Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

E. Lockhart

#16. A man says to his mate: "My wife is a twin." His mate says, "How do you tell them apart?" The man says: "Her brother has a beard."

Frank Carson

#17. My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.

Marita Golden

#18. Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

Iggy Pop