Quotes (Page 34)!

  1. 'Far out, as my mother used to say....Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole [goshdarned] planet.' ~William Mandella
  2. 'A Greek phalanx must have looked pretty impressive, but it wouldn't do too well against a single man with a flamethrower.' ~William Mandella
  3. 'I wished our spy satellites had a finer sense of discrimination. But you can only cram so much into a machine the size of a grape.' ~William Mandella
  4. 'There isn't any safe way to kill yourself.' ~Dana Franklin
  5. 'Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.' ~Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash
  6. 'Videotape is cheap. You never know when something will be useful, so you might as well videotape it.' ~Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash
  7. 'It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.' ~Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash
  8. 'That's my expression. I made it up. An expression like that is just like a virus, you know'it's a piece of information'data'that spreads from one person to the next.' ~L. Bob Rife
  9. 'The boys decided to get all 'mature' on Y.T. Males of this age are preoccupied with snapping each other's underwear and drinking until they are in a coma. But around a female, they do the 'mature' thing. It is hilarious.' ~Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash
  10. 'All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.' ~Juanita Marquez
  11. 'These new Knight Visions cost her a big wad of her Mob drug-running money. Just the kind of thing Mom had in mind when she insisted Y.T. get a part-time job.' ~Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash
  12. 'Guns take a long time to work (you have to wait for the victim to bleed to death).' ~Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash
  13. 'Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest [jerkface] in the world.' ~Neal Stephenson, Snowcrash
  14. 'She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after....She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.' ~Y.T.
  15. 'I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.' ~Neal Stephenson
  16. 'The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.' ~Ursula K. Le Guin
  17. 'Science doesn't argue with the intransigent objector to the laws of Nature. It simply proceeds without him. If he shouts a defiant 'Over my dead body!' it proceeds with perfect equanimity, and without the slightest hesitancy, over his dead body.' ~John W. Campbell
  18. '[Style is] a thing that is six stages more tenuous and about one tenth as definable as a ghost, and yet makes the difference between a 'nice idea, too bad he can't write' and a bell-ringing, smash-hit yarn.' ~John W. Campbell
  19. 'I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.' ~Philip K. Dick
  20. 'A lot of what I wrote, which looks like the result of taking acid, is really the result of taking van Vogt very seriously.' ~Philip K. Dick
  21. 'Women have no rights, Don, except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful, and they run the world. When the next real crisis upsets them, our so-called rights will vanish like'like that smoke. We'll be back where we always were: property. And whatever has gone wrong will be blamed on our freedom, like the fall of Rome was. You'll see.' ~Ruth Parsons 'The Women Men Don't See'
  22. 'There seems to be a story going about at the moment, to the effect that feminist SF isn't real science fiction at all'it is a raid on the genre. These ruthless female bandits, post-holocaust amazons no doubt (many of them without so much as a single degree in astrophysics). They've never written SF before and they come along, smash open the science fiction shop front, and run off with all the high tech gear. They chuck away most of it after they've tried to eat it, found you can't use circuit boards as sanitary towels and so on. They keep a few of the little bitty glass bead things to wear in their nipple rings.' ~Gwyneth Jones
  23. 'Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy builds girl.' ~Anonymous, 'The Shortest Science Fiction Story Ever Written'
  24. '[I]t lifted her heart to think of the stories being written now, new stories, stories of the Free. That was why writing was so important.' ~Suzy McGee Charnas
  25. 'Quite simply, feminism works to achieve social justice for women. It aims to render obsolete the patriarchal order whose hegemony has meant inequality and oppression for women as the 'others' of men. In other words, feminism desires nothing less than to change the world.' ~Veronica Hollinger, 'Feminist Theory and Science Fiction'
  26. 'There is a thin line between self-indulgence and playfulness.' ~Andrew M. Butler, 'Postmodernism and Science Fiction'
  27. 'If [science fiction] were an education scheme, the report card for the human race would always read 'could do better'.' ~Gwyneth Jones, 'The Icons of Science Fiction'
  28. 'Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)' ~Karen Fowler
  29. 'Visually, Robby [the Robot] looks like the offspring of some mad mating between the Michelin tire man and a juke box.' ~Vivian Sobchack, Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film
  30. 'What is visually fascinating and disturbing about the images in films like Siegel's Body Snatchers is the way in which the secure and familiar are twisted into something subtly dangerous and slyly perverted....As viewers, we are forced into an extremely active role watching these films, a role not often demanded of us by movies; we are seduced by the minimal activity and novelty of what's on the screen into an attentive paranoia which makes us lean forward to scan what seem like the most intentionally and deceitfully flat images for signs of aberrant alien behavior from the most improbable of suspects.' ~Vivian Sobchack, Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film
  31. 'Senator, I'm sure my son has a very good reason for paralyzing the country.' ~Miss Winters from Wild in the Streets
  32. '...the more a film costs, the fewer risks it is likely to take.' ~Vivian Sobchack, Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film
  33. 'Someday I'm going to write an article for the Journal of Semantics, called 'Tone of Voice: An Insufficient Vehicle for Irony'.' ~Roger Zelazny, 'A Rose for Ecclesiastes'
  34. 'After two years on a dead planet, and the last half year isolated as a team of two, oneself and one other, after that it's even harder to meet a stranger, however welcome he may be. You're out of the habit of difference, you've lost the touch; and so the fear revives, the primitive anxiety, the old dread.' ~Ursula K. Le Guin, 'Nine Lives'
  35. ''It was like this at fourteen hours,' said Reason shakily in Marin's voice; amidst the unfastening and ruin of the world. But Unreason sat up, as the tumult lessened and things ceased dancing, and screamed aloud.' ~Ursula K. Le Guin, 'Nine Lives'
  36. 'When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictability about the outcome.' ~Janet from Joanna Russ' 'When it Changed'
  37. 'I can't learn all the customs of all the people on this earth, so I keep m own.' ~Snake
  38. 'Philosophically, they're great. But that's if you ignore what, you know, happens.' ~A guy in my Sci-Fi class about the Matrix trilogy
  39. "Now I'm scared, because Lois is gonna get half the superpowers when they get divorced." ~Ty Barnett
  40. "I'm gonna be _so_ late to class because I don't like my away message." ~Hillary
  41. "I feel like [God]'s hazing us." ~Jon Stewart
  42. "We were hoping there would be more Prokofiev fans in the audience." ~Stephen Colbert
  43. "You think I'm retarded... Fair assumption." ~Stephen Colbert
  44. 'You _are_ a grown-ass man.' ~Deputy James Garcia
  45. 'Both of our wands contain the same piece of phoenix tail.' ~Stephen Colbert
  46. 'Oh, hi, chief. Nope, not much going on, well, other than your intern chief making out with my friend in the stairwell, but hey... Sponge duty sucks....I'm a bad sponge. A leaky sponge. I'm gonna leak all the wrong secrets. I'm a bad liar. I can't even lie about talking to myself.' ~Dr. George O'Malley
  47. 'You hesitated!' ~Dr. George O'Malley
  48. 'Love means never using your girlfriend as a human shield.' ~Patient on Grey's Anatomy
  49. 'We're family. Izzy and Meredith and Christina and I, we're family. I may hate her...but she is family, and I will always defend her.' ~Dr. George O'Malley
  50. 'The thing about families is you don't necessarily like what they do ' their choices, their decisions ' but you stick by them.' ~Dr. George O'Malley
  51. "Preston Xavier Burke, what have you done with my suck ups?" ~Dr. Bailey
  52. 'I'm not going to be responsible for you becoming less human.' ~Dr. Richard Webber
  53. 'That's life. And life...sucks.' ~Dr. George O'Malley
  54. 'I didn't like teenage girls when I was a teenage girl.' ~Dr. Christina Yang
  55. 'We're taking turns. It's polite, and it's keeping me from yelling.' ~Denny Duquette
  56. 'I have a brother who's an idiot, so I speak fluent dumbass.' ~Ike Berenholtz character on MADtv
  57. "I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father." ~Stephen Colbert
  58. "In America, if something sucks, you're supposed to be able to get your money back." ~Stan Marsh
  59. 'I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!' ~Adam Savage
  60. 'If your pants burst into flames like this, how would you explain it so someone?' ~Tory Belleci
  61. 'It's not stock footage, it's more like stock mileage at this point.' ~Crow T. Robot
  62. 'Maybe we climbed right past the summit!' ~Crow T. Robot
  63. 'Avalanche footage! Run!' ~Crow T. Robot
  64. 'I brought you a big, delicious pan of smarmy.' ~Mike Nelson
  65. 'She is a monumentally stupid person.' ~Tom Servo
  66. "Don't just do something! Stand there!" ~Tom Servo
  67. "Oh my god, it's an insert shot of an iguana!" ~Tom Servo
  68. "It's the nighttime, aching, sniffling, sneezing, so you're being chased by a human hand medicine!" ~Tom Servo
  69. "I don't know why [Shatner] does it, or who lets him do it." ~Crow T. Robot
  70. "Always be careful when Joel is using the laser torch." ~Joel Robinson
  71. "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous." ~Crow T. Robot
  72. "The movie's been attacked by a nature film!" ~Tom Servo
  73. '[Joel]'s kind of cute. He has good bone structure, and he can drive a stick." ~Crow T. Robot
  74. "Could we have sent a stranger person into space?" ~Dr. Forester on Joel Robinson
  75. "You know, if I'm ever trapped in outer space again, I think I'm just gonna bring books." ~Joel Robinson
  76. "If you drag out our rotting, broken carcasses, it means it didn't really work out very well." ~Tom Servo
  77. "Slime people have no traction." ~Tom Servo
  78. "What are the chances of a moving plane hitting a moving van with a moving bomb that looks like a pineapple?" ~Crow T. Robot
  79. "That's one small step for special effects, one giant leap for our imaginations!" ~Crow T. Robot
  80. 'You're trying to end this conversation by grossing me out? I'm an oncologist.' ~Dr. James Wilson
  81. 'At least you're deep enough to realize how shallow you are.' ~Dr. Niles Crane
  82. 'I'm gonna go talk to Monk. You make me want to talk to Monk.' ~Cpt. Leeland Stottlemeyer to Lt. Randy Disher
  83. 'I am dealing with [my toothache] ' I'm chewing on the other side.' ~Lt. Randy Disher
  84. 'This is a floss-free zone.' ~Cpt. Leeland Stottlemeyer
  85. 'What are the odds of another dentist torturing you?' ~Natalie Teeger
  86. 'I'm impervious to logic.' ~Stephen Colbert
  87. 'So, I was like, 'Eric, I am not going shorts shopping with you.'' ~Duckie
  88. 'Tonight when Orpheus descends into [Tartarus], I'll be there waiting with a fruit basket!' ~Dr. Niles Crane
  89. 'As few kids as we have [in colour guard] this year, we're gonna put 'em in fricken neon. If I could put light bulbs on their heads, I would.' ~Mr. Keech
  90. 'If I had no inner monologue, I'd sound a lot like Linda Whittle.' ~Mr. Keech
  91. 'I know I have a temper. But I've been working on it. I have a yoyo... Actually, the yoyo broke when I threw it at the guy.' ~Cpt. Leeland Stottlemeyer
  92. 'When I decide to push you away, I hope there's a small person behind you so you fall over.' ~Dr. Gregory House
  93. 'I'm not stifling [your dream], I'm trying to crush it.' ~Ben Harper
  94. 'You're more than popular ' you're pure lowest common denominator.' ~Bender's agent
  95. 'Read 'em and leak salt water.' ~Bender
  96. "Here's the thing about clich's: They're not clich's if nobody tells you. They're not clich's if you don't know it. And if it is a clich' and you know it, maybe you don't pack it, maybe you don't bring it, and then just imagine what is lost. So much is lost." ~Christian Bauman, "Not Fade Away"
  97. "Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. Worse, some don't even make their living at it; some do it free of charge." ~Christian Bauman, "Not Fade Away"
  98. "[As a journalist,] You have to learn to be intrusive, and there's nothing like an editor/deadline/paycheck to help further the education process, especially if the editor is a monster, the deadline is yesterday, and the paycheck is desperately needed to cover you rent." ~Howard Hunt, "The Invisible Narrator"
  99. "...it is a common flaw of writers to rationalize everything we do or experience, claiming that it will make us better writers." ~Michelle Richmond, "From Somewhere Down South to South Beach"
  100. "Even though I tried to be all tough guy about my creative process and the work of writing, I am secretly under my breath asking something bigger than I that I think may reside far above me in the sky or clouds or universe to please let me stop running from the work I get to do. And I wrestle between that line of thinking and my belief that writing is nothing so precious that it needs nine tons of mustered strength, random travel, and a favor from God to approach." ~Dan Kennedy, "Welcome. Grab a Broom"

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