Famous Science Fiction Quotes

#1. Jimmy: You'll end up like one of those chocolate merengues my wife is so fond of [Alison starts banging jars] ... sweet and sticky on the outside, and sink your teeth in it [savouring every word]-inside, all white, messy and disgusting. [offering teapot sweetly to Helena] Milk?

John Osborne

#2. Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.

R. Curtis Venture

#3. President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.

Jay Leno

#4. Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.

Aristotle.

#6. I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

Margaret Mead

#8. Space is infinite. To the mind that means freedom, liberation.' So wrote Arisko, our greatest turkle philosopher, in his most famous work, 'Thoughts In A Bathtub'," said Dottia, dreamily, in an inspired state.

Philip Dodd

#9. It is superstitious to put one's hope in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Blaise Pascal

#10. I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.

Robert Silverberg

#11. Because you make me. Because I didn't exist, not in any way that matters, until I met you.

Erin McCarthy

#12. Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#13. Stop calling me 'babe'. It's demeaning. I'm not a babe, I'm a woman

Kristen Ashley

#14. Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

Irwin Redlener

#15. It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

Jane Addams

#16. A truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought

Tami Hoag

#17. Education is the manifestation and evolution of the knowledge that is already inherent within you.

Abhijit Naskar