Riley > Riley's Quotes

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”
― Tim Burton

“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed 'cause he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.”
― Neil Gaiman

“You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."

"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"

"The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.”
― Jonathan Morris, Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
― Frederik Pohl

“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”
― Susan Sontag

“Sometimes a good bowl of soup or a buttered piece of fresh bread can make a terrible day feel better.”
― Delemhach, The House Witch