Terran Quotes

#1. But the physical danger was judged to be less important than the psychological stresses. Eight humans, crowded together like monkeys for almost three Terran years, had better get along much better than humans usually did.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. Human bipolarity was both the binding force and the driving energy for all human behavior, from sonnets to nuclear equations. If any being thinks that human psychologists exaggerate on this point, let it search Terran patent offices, libraries, and art galleries for creations of eunuchs.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Our pride is not in fighting but in farming; In the work of our, hands not our blades. Never have we sought war. We come to the Banner of the white pig because it is the banner of our friend, Terran Wanderer.

Lloyd Alexander

#4. Marsh'k cut the circuit on the rest of the helmsman's whining and rose to his feet, stretching to his full height of just under six standard Terran feet.

Christina Engela

#5. Intelligence reports and local folklore together perpetuated tales of his bloody adventures across the rim worlds and badlands of Terran space. It was his trademark and often over the last two decades, history proclaimed in large bloody letters that 'Kilroy woz 'ere.

Christina Engela

#6. If this place were closer to Terra there'd be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There'd be old jet motors in the water. The beaches would stink to high heaven. Terran Development would have a couple of million little plastic houses set up everywhere.

Philip K. Dick

#7. Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult game.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. Surely you've been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

Sidney Sheldon

#9. Confident people tend to challenge themselves and compete, even when their efforts yield small victories. Small victories build new androgen receptors in the areas of the brain responsible for reward and motivation.

Travis Bradberry

#10. Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

Julianna Baggott

#11. We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#12. He knows a sweep of gratitude, soft as another voice, and so wide and deep he believes he might drown in it.

Jean Hegland

#13. One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Eugene O'Neill