Brian > Brian's Quotes

“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.'
Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise;
Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes.
On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Squeej? What kind of name was that for a pilot?”
― Jack McDevitt, The Devil's Eye

“This isn't about what is . . . it's about what people think is. It's all imaginary anyway. That's why it's important. People only fight over imaginary things.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Darling, whose book is this to be?"

"Ostensibly yours, my sweet"

"I see -- rather like my life since I met you?"

"Yes darling”
― John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot”
― Iain M. Banks

“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

“We shouldn't just always talk about human rights; we should also point out human obligations.”
― Otto Carius

“Beginnings are such delicate times.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune