Steve Perry > Quotes

“People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.”
― Steve Perry, Men in Black

“He had never found a companion he could consider his equal, and if he ever did, well, how would he be able to trust someone that adept? An interesting conundrum.”
― Steve Perry, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

“Droga to życie. Życie to walka”
― Steve Perry

“a second is as good as an eon, if you suceed...and as good as forever if you fail”
― Steve Perry, The Albino Knife

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it”
― Steve Perry, Men in Black

“If by dying for the cause you’re going straight to Paradise to sit at your thundering god’s right hand, death doesn’t mean a whole lot.” “Are people really that stupid?” “That’s a rhetorical question, right?”
― Steve Perry, The Trinity Vector

“Consider the logistics of a god who has eight arms and three penises coupling with a goddess who has four arms and nine vaginas.”
― Steve Perry, Champion of the Dead

“Cold allowed precision, heat threw caution aside and plunged in rampantly. Cold was the process of deliberation and planning, heat the result of unbridled passion. Passion was fine, but only when controlled and channeled properly.”
― Steve Perry, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

“Vader’s burned face twisted into its unseen, stiff smile. Once again, Tarkin had been overconfident, so certain his beloved monster was proof against anything. A fly could sting you if you missed swatting it.”
― Steve Perry, Star Wars: Death Star

“REM sleep, the time of dreams, at about five to eight hertz. Hallucinations—Dreams “R” Us.”
― Steve Perry, Changing of the Guard

“Teaching helped sharpen your own skills.”
― Steve Perry, Net Force

“between seven and thirteen hertz. Theta were even slower, the brain waves most commonly found during”
― Steve Perry, Changing of the Guard

“Six-P Principle he had learned from an American movie: Proper planning prevents piss-poor performance. The”
― Steve Perry, Changing of the Guard

“Minimize expectations to avoid being disappointed.”
― Steve Perry, Changing of the Guard

“Aboard the Executor, Vader considered his upcoming meeting with Luke. Since last they’d met, the boy had had time to come to terms with what he’d been told. On some level, he must know the truth, that Vader was his father. Of course, that had been in another lifetime, when Vader had still been Anakin Skywalker, but the fact of it remained.
He would turn him. He knew he could, because he had felt the dark side rise in Luke, had felt the power of his anger. The boy had loosed it once; he could be made to free it again. Each repetition became easier. The dark side was a path that grew wider and deeper each time you trod upon it. Soon it would be no effort at all for Luke to allow the dark side to rule.
And the Emperor was right. Luke had much power in him. It was raw, unchanneled and untrained, but it was vast. His potential was larger than the Emperor’s, larger than Vader’s.
But it was still only potential and not focused energy. When next they met, Vader would still be more adept, still the master. He would defeat the boy and bring him to the dark side. They would be in accord, father and son.
And when that happened, nothing in the galaxy could stop them. None would dare oppose them. All would bow before them. Worlds would tremble at their approach.
Under his mask, Vader smiled.”
― Steve Perry, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

“chambers into the loading bay, Billie”
― Steve Perry, The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume One

“There were four basic types: Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta, each one operating at a different frequency. Beta were the most active—the waking mind, the thinking mind. It ranged in speed from ten to thirty hertz. Alpha waves were the meditation ones, the relaxed state of being. They produced a general feeling of reduced anxiety and well-being. These were slower,”
― Steve Perry, Changing of the Guard

“Kane stood ready, his sword forged of love, hope and prayer, in hand.”
― Steve Perry, Champion of the Dead

“Friends were harder to come by than lovers.”
― Steve Perry, Hidden Agendas

“The Alpha-Theta border? People in this state of mind were supposed to suddenly gain great insight as their thoughts passed from the seven-to eight-hertz range.”
― Steve Perry, Changing of the Guard

“Best to be thankful for what you have than to complain about what you didn’t.”
― Steve Perry, Changing of the Guard

“comfortable preaching it, if you know what I mean.”
― Steve Perry, Springboard

“The really important ones, at least to him now, were the Delta waves—produced during deep, deep sleep, or comas, when the body repaired itself. Deltas were slow—between two and six hertz.”
― Steve Perry, Changing of the Guard

“No problem, the marines were lean, mean, and obscene.”
― Steve Perry, The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume One

“He’s a bad-ass, that Buddha is. Tear your nuts right off.”
― Steve Perry, Champion of the Dead

“SITTING NAKED in his chamber and working on his healing meditation, Darth Vader frowned. There was a disturbance in the Force. He reached for it with the power of the dark side…
He could not connect with it, whatever it was.
Abruptly the sensation of a ripple passed.
The dark side still had surprises for him. Like a fire, it could warm or burn, and great care must be taken not to trip and fall into it. He had seen what extensive use had done to the Emperor; it had eaten away at him physically. But that would not happen to Vader, for he intended to master the dark side. He was well on the way. It would be only a matter of how long, of when, not if. And when he finally snared Luke, the process would go faster. Two powerful magnets would attract more of the dark energy than one. Together they would manipulate the Force quicker than either could alone.
So strong, the boy. Who could have known? Luke Skywalker—his son—might well be the most powerful man in the galaxy.
He allowed himself a smile, even though the expression stretched scar tissue and was painful. He could withstand pain.
He was the Dark Lord of the Sith, and he could withstand anything.”
― Steve Perry, Shadows of the Empire: Star Wars Legends

“Trying to guess your own future turned out wrong almost all the time. Life was strange that way.”
― Steve Perry

“I’m very comfortable in my own faith, and I’m comfortable sharing that faith, but I’m not”
― Steve Perry, Springboard

“The Marines were supposed to go to foreign shores to clear the roads for the Army to follow, and, if need be, help defend the U.S. from invaders, but when was the last time the U.S. had been invaded? 1812? Or did the Alamo count, even though Texas wasn’t a state for another eight or nine years?”
― Steve Perry, The Archimedes Effect