J.S. Dewes > J.S.'s Quotes

“He would do worse than his worst if he had to.”
― Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity

“A pause; it endured horribly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

“Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

“Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See--no weapons"? But no one could think of anything better.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“But emotion had come upon him after all. Not for fifty billion people. What in Time did he care for fifty billion people? There was just one. One person.”
― Isaac Asimov, The End of Eternity

“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. ”
― Ray Bradbury

“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez, Invisible Reality

“Those who don't build must burn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“The long knives made short work.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky