Military Science Fiction Quotes

#1. If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

Brandon Sanderson

#2. We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

Jerry Pournelle

#3. Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book.

Catherine Asaro

#4. Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us everything we want in our military science fiction, but never allows the hardware and action to overshadow Paen and everyone else caught in the crossfire.

Dayton Ward

#5. Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

Henry V. O'Neil

#6. This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try.

Henry V. O'Neil

#7. Caleb shoved back from the table and stood to retreat to the kitchen. "No. Find another plan."

"There is no other plan. This isn't even a plan, merely a nugget of an idea for the start of a plan that's certain to fail and end in your deaths.

G.S. Jennsen

#8. Food's the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn't believe how fast they consume what they're carrying, and then ... if I don't get them more, if I don't find them more ... they die.

Henry V. O'Neil

#9. I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

Ruth Ozeki

#10. Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

James Nesbitt

#11. I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

Gaspar Noe

#12. God, I swear I've never seen a more
nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.

Feather Stone

#13. I love dogs because they're so adaptable.

Martha Plimpton

#14. This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life.

Henry V. O'Neil

#15. No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.

Henry V. O'Neil

#16. He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he'd peed himself, it didn't matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.

Henry V. O'Neil

#17. I shall live forever. And I don't mean in a metaphorical sense. I don't mean I'll live forever in the hearts and minds of my readers. I mean I will literally live forever, drawing as I do from your pain and suffering.
Your pain makes me strong.

Derek Landy

#18. What you mons making all the racket about? You wake me again and I'll put the voodoo hex on you. All you only call me Tuberculosis behind my back now. You want the real thing?" Sergeant "T. B" Tinkerbelle Bettina Jones.

Ellen Dawn Benefield

#19. The music has turned into a distant hysterical pounding and shrieking, like someone has a tiny Rihanna locked in a box.

Tana French

#20. Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

Eric Schlosser

#21. Veil wouldn't make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes.

Aaron Overfield

#22. It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Jean Piaget

#23. The path not taken, was not taken. No point wondering.

Philip Palmer

#24. What happens," called out Max, "if you win?"
"We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained

Philip Palmer

#25. I am in short, a witch of the quantumverse.

Philip Palmer

#26. Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

Lajos Kossuth

#27. I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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Bill Bryson

#29. Never diagnosed the enemy before.

Henry V. O'Neil

#30. There's not a hell of a lot of difference between bravery and stupidity." - Commander Boaz Aurigae

Charles Nall

#31. Remember what they did to Broadleaf, and remember what they did to us. Now it's time for us to kill 'em back.

Henry V. O'Neil

#32. I think New York is more stylish than London.

Max Irons

#33. How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.

Henry V. O'Neil

#34. One thing that is wrongly hyped is social media For many media organizations, they think it of it as distribution, and yes it's good for that. What's missing is the power of social media for engagement with the audience and for newsgathering.

Vivian Schiller

#35. That's it. Keep that edge. Fight like there's no tomorrow.

Henry V. O'Neil

#36. An illusion is when everyone is in on the joke, a delusion is when you are the joke.

Austin Aragon