For a project I’m looking for some good quotes from various authors of SF and Fantasy. Can you fine people help me remember them? Give me the classics, people.
Examples:
“You see, I had this space suit.”
“He says his name is Ruth!”
“History will call us wives.”
“My God. It’s full of stars.”
If for a wall mural in my office. It will be accompanied by some classic style artwork and such.
Why? To quote XKCD: Because I’m the adult now and I get to say what that means.
TANSTAAFL
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
My precioussss
No, I am your father.
A robot shall not harm a human being, nor, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm.
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
Good ones, people. Good ones.
What do y’all think? For Tolkien which of these is better?
“My precious…”
“This was a hobbit hole. And that meant comfort.”
Insufficient data for meaningful answer.
“Let There be light.” And there was light.
A star-mangled spanner.
“Whoso pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil is rightwise King born of all England.”
“Curiouser and curiouser.”
"I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.’ "
“You cannot pass! I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udun! YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” - Gandalf
"Revenge ! Revenge? You? The King Under the Mountain is dead and where are his kin that dare seek revenge ? Girion Lord of Dale is dead and I have eaten his people like a wolf among sheep, and where are his son’s son’s that dare approach me ? I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong, STRONG ! Thief in the Shadows. My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings are a hurricane, and my breath… DEATH! " - Smaug
“Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.”
“THIS IS NOT WAR. THIS IS PEST CONTROL.” - a Dalek in Doctor Who
“Do you not feel with all your soul how we have become like gods? And as such, are we not indivisible? As long as one of us stands, we are legion!” - Kain, Blood Omen games
“And then the killers departed, having gone in with the long knives, and leaving behind nothing but blood and silence.” :* Vortex*
“You will not touch the boy. You will never touch the boy. Because if you do, you will wonder why your friend, Death took so long to find you.” - Empire’s End
“Arhys rides out now. Pity his enemies, for death on a demon horse descends upon them out of the darkness, bringing sword and fire. Many will bear him company on his journey to his Father’s Keep tonight, their souls like ragged banners borne before his echoing feet.” : The Paladin of Souls
“The powers that I may wield are vaster than those of many gods that humans have worshiped. There is not a man I meet but I could take his life. There is not a world I pause on that I could not lay waste utterly, or remake as I choose. I am the Lord God, or as much of one as either of you is likely to ever encounter.” : Tuf Voyaging
“Please accept my assurances that no personal animosity of any kind is intended towards any of you. Nonetheless it appears, unfortunately that I must now go forth and destroy your respective worlds. Perhaps you would like to draw straws, to determine where I might best start.” : Tuf Voyaging
“Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valor pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the hell with you!” - Conan
“When I come to her, she will be safe, unharmed, and free. Because I will come to her. And if she is not, I will destroy “Her Undying Majesty”, melt what is left of your miserable island into slag, and BOIL THE SEAS AROUND YOU FOR THE NEXT THOUSAND YEARS!” - Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, Girl Genius
Vol will not be pleased.
Are you of the body?
I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer!
He/she/it’s dead, Jim!
Make it so.
“The flickering torches cast weird shafts of luminescence dancing over the half naked harlot of his choice, her stringy orchid twines of hair swaying gracefully over the lithe opaque nose, as she raised a half drained mug to her pale red lips.” -Eye Of Argon
A boy loves his dog.
Grandma! I remember her birth.
It was a pleasure to burn.
Life is short, but the years are long.
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
OOoo…
“I’ll be back.”
I’ve seen a lot of good quotes, and some of them were from Babylon 5. But not my favorite.
“Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am Death Incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me.”
“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
“Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more.”
Or wait, if you want some real classics:
“O brave new world, that has such people in it!”
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep.”
“If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended”
“(Exit, pursued by a bear)”
Douglas Adams was full of good quotes.
“Don’t Panic.”
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
“Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
“I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
“Life is wasted on the living.”
“In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.”
“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”
“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
“Burn the land and boil the sea, you can’t take the sky from me.” Firefly
“Looks good, doesn’t it? They’re trapped in here. Terrified. Meat for the beast. And there’s nothing they can do but wait. That’s all they’ve been doing for days, waiting to be picked off, having nightmares about monsters that can’t be killed. But I don’t believe in that. I always find a way. I’m the thing that monsters have nightmares about. And right now you and me are gonna show 'em why. It’s time. Welcome to Thunderdome.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer
It’s not my fault!
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards.
KHAAAAANNNNN!
To crush your enemies, drive them before, and hear the lamentation of their women. That is what is good in life.
Asta la vista, baby.
I’m not left-handed, either.