Top 83 Quotes About Spaceships
#1. I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
Berkeley Breathed
#2. And last, it was after he was relieved to find she was right about Psych. It wasn't geeky. There were no spaceships, alternate universes or fantastical explanations for ridiculous plot devices. It was just damned funny and, to top that, clever.
Kristen Ashley
#3. Bookshops are
time machines
spaceships
story-makers
secret-keepers
dragon-tamers
dream-catchers
fact-finders
& safe places.
(this book is for those who know this to be true)
Jen Campbell
#4. My husband is like, "Oh, thank God we didn't have a boy, because there's this train set that I've always wanted, and these Star Wars spaceships ... " They say, "Don't spoil your kids," but it's one thing spoiling your kids, it's another thing spoiling yourself.
Milla Jovovich
#5. Imagination They say adults have no imagination. Not true. Just instead of dinosaurs and spaceships, they imagine silence and the new babysitter bent over the coffee table.
Bo Burnham
#6. Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.
David Duchovny
#7. The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
David Brin
#8. What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque
Carl Sagan
#10. The future was glorious once. It was filled with sleek silver spaceships, lunar colonies, and galactic empires. The horizon seemed within reach; we could almost grasp the stars if we would but try.
Kevin J. Anderson
#11. I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!
Lee De Forest
#12. Well of course people cross genres all the time. You could have something called science-fiction-fantasy. Some galaxy far, far away and in another time with spaceships, but also dragons. And there's no rule that says you can't do that.
Margaret Atwood
#13. From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!
Michael Foreman
#14. I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.
Neil Young
#15. When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.
Michelle Forbes
#16. But I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.
Daniel Dennett
#17. We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.
David Wong
#18. Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
Gore Vidal
#19. I think when science fiction is at its worst, it's just spaceships flying around shooting at each other. There has to be a lot more going on than that ... science fiction is about exploring new worlds and new ideas, not about ray guns and action, necessarily.
Jeff Lemire
#20. As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
Tananarive Due
#21. If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death - and I believe that it will be - then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.
Jane Roberts
#22. The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and
thermonuclear weapons.
Arthur C. Clarke
#23. We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.
Justin Rosenstein
#24. After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, "How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?"
Carl Sagan
#25. You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.
Peter Diamandis
#26. I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
Buzz Aldrin
#27. You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.
John Barrowman
#28. The first time, he had wondered why she liked books so much, and if it had anything to do with why he liked spaceships. Because they could take you somewhere far, far away
Marissa Meyer
#29. I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion ... I could be a colorist of spaceships.
Geoffrey Beene
#31. If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.
Margaret Atwood
#32. ..and whatever you do stay away from cults. There are all sorts of nutty cults out in Lala Land. Crazy people believing in aliens and spaceships."
"Mama, you believe in aliens and spaceships."
"Yes, but I believe in Jesus, too. That makes it different.
Marshall Thornton
#33. Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension.
Robert A. Baker
#34. I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
Peter Diamandis
#35. I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
Gary Oldman
#36. I am thinking of a sky filled with spaceships, so many of them that they seem like a plague of locusts, silver against the luminous mauve of the night.
Neil Gaiman
#37. Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.
Tracy Kidder
#38. One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
Arthur C. Clarke
#39. Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
Adam Savage
#40. I'm fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?
Elena Satine
#41. Try and understand his problem," insisted Ford. "Here he is, poor lad, his entire life's work is stamping around, throwing people off spaceships ... " "And shouting," added the guard.
Douglas Adams
#42. These places are time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers. They are dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders, and safe places. They are full of infinite possibilities and tales worth taking home.
Jen Campbell
#43. It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from another or more than one solar system. They are possibly manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race carrying out long-range scientific investigations of our earth for centuries.
Hermann Oberth
#44. Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.
Quentin Tarantino
#45. The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
Neil Young
#46. Men on the surface of a planet are as helpless against men in spaceships as a man would be trying to conduct a rock-throwing fight from the bottom of a well. The man at the top of the well has gravity working for him.
Robert A. Heinlein
#47. 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
#48. I didn't go to the special screening on a spaceship where everybody goes to have their special screeningsEverybody knows that's what happens in Hollywood.
John Krasinski
#49. Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to us, already died once, long ago in a faraway place.
Jeno Marz
#50. Thing to know about the Reaches....It's always trying to kill you. Even the empty places between the stars."
Asher Corsair, Allies and Enemies: Rogues
Amy J. Murphy
#51. I've always wondered about your name," Misha said to Hijja while scraping a bit of space gunk from the window of their spaceship.
Mads Sukalikar
#52. The Novoloume gazed in interest around the cabin. "So the whispers are true - Kats, SAIs and Humans have come to join with the anarchs in a quest to save us all."
Felzeor returned to Caleb's outstretched arm and leaned in to nuzzle his nose. "What a grand quest it's sure to be!
G.S. Jennsen
#53. The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry.
Ernest Cline
#55. Intellectually he knows that the blood is being pressed to the back of his body, pooling in the back part of his cerebellum and flooding his kidneys. He hasn't done enough medical work to know what that means, but it can't be good.
James S.A. Corey
#56. Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#57. Three men sat around a table. All were muscled and similarly greasy and easily identifiable as scum. As he breached the entrance all three were moving, drawing their own guns in surprise.
Only one got off a shot.
G.S. Jennsen
#58. To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.
Vanna Bonta
#59. She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminders that she was the puppet of acceleration and inertia.
James S.A. Corey
#60. Alex peered behind her to see Noah fussing over a scrape on Kennedy's cheek. "Unless someone's bleeding to death, first aid will have to wait. You'll want to strap into the jump seats.
"This could get interesting, and that's before we get clear of the station.
G.S. Jennsen
#61. Acceleration is pressing his eyeballs out of their right shape. High tech astigmatism.
James S.A. Corey
#62. I believe my judgment has never been clearer. I have seen firsthand their potential, their strength of will, in a way you have not."
"You have loosed a chaotic, unstable variable into the Mosaic. They will destroy everything."
"It is a risk. They also may save everything.
G.S. Jennsen
#63. There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
Farah Diba
#64. Her perception was propelled backward, as if it were being pulled into a vortex. She slammed into her body, and her eyes flew open with a gasp.
"Alex?"
She sat straight up in the chair and grabbed Caleb by the shoulders. "We have to save them.
G.S. Jennsen
#65. In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it's time for a mutiny.
Jose Arguelles
#66. The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans.
Steven Magee
#68. We'll go along with it for now. Valkyrie, keep close watch and be ready to swoop to the rescue."
'Hopefully swooping will not be required, nor rescue. But I am ready to do both.'
He squeezed her hand. "Alex?"
"I'm ready, too.
G.S. Jennsen
#69. If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.
If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.
G.S. Jennsen
#70. This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.
Robert Crippen
#71. Why is it that they can only come up with one model of spaceship? You would assume such intelligent creatures could, once in a while, put out something in a nice powder blue and shaped like a footstool or maybe like France.
Cuthbert Soup
#72. I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to flying.
Alan Tudyk
#73. It felt somehow comforting to return to the sparkling lake tucked into the mountains on Portal Prime. But why, when everything about Mesme made her the antithesis of comfortable?
Because here was where desperation had become hope. Where helplessness had become purpose.
G.S. Jennsen
#74. It was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.
G.S. Jennsen
#75. Semantics, Admiral. I'd appreciate an honest answer."
"I'd appreciate a multitude of honest answers, but I rarely expect to receive them." Miriam sighed; the verbal tete-a-tete was growing tiresome. Time to bring an end to it with, ironically, honesty.
G.S. Jennsen
#76. I'm a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.
James S.A. Corey
#77. Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.
Kleber Mendonca Filho
#78. I wonder if in 2050 there will be a movie called, 'Dude, Where's My Spaceship'
Zach Galifianakis
#79. I have had it with these dumb cakes on this dumb spaceship!
Philip Reeve
#80. He checked her over while mentally checking himself. "Environment suits sealed up. Breather masks in hand. Daemons. Blades. Transmitters. Healthy respect for the adversary - you've got that, right?"
One corner of her mouth curled up. "Absolutely.
G.S. Jennsen
#81. Isn't antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.
Enterprise?
Dan Brown
#82. We want to know. We want to know who we are and what we are capable of.
I want to know.
And yet we were dragged into another war. Another seemingly inevitable and gruesome legacy passed down, along with soma.
Jeno Marz
#83. She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation.
Thomas Pierce
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