Classic Science Fiction Quotes

#1. It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Cory Doctorow

#2. I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Gil Gerard

#3. Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests.
In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.

Rick Remender

#4. Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

Pope Benedict XVI

#5. The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#6. Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

Isaac D'Israeli

#7. Like a typical Gemini I'm changeable, I can be two different types of people. I can be very outgoing, but sometimes very shy.

Denise Van Outen

#8. I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at PeopleSoft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.

David Duffield

#9. As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#10. She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.

Julianna Baggott

#11. The next thing I knew, I was falling. I dreamed I was being thrown into an open grave, but jerked awake and landed on a bed.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#12. A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

#13. I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

Malcolm X

#14. Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.

Wallace D. Wattles

#15. "Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. He lived.
He made it.
A second chance,
given to one
and not the other.
And this?
This is what he did with it?

Lisa Schroeder

#17. We are puzzle pieces, bragging about being puzzle pieces, rather than being the picture.

Tom Althouse

#18. Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street's surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume.

A.F. Stewart

#20. I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.

Jon Spaihts

#21. In that moment, I welcomed back the light and let go of the fear, the feelings of unworthiness, the past, the loss, the wallowing, the grief and the anger. I let go of the illusion of control in our losses, of our afflictions.

Ariana Carruth