Aliens Quotes

“Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“Get away from her, you!”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“My mommy always said there were no such things as monsters. No real ones. But there are.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“You know, Burke, I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them killing each other for a percentage.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“The girl looked at her so sharply that Ripley was taken aback. The assurance in Newt’s eyes bespoke a hardness that was anything but childish. Her tone was flat, neutral. ‘I don’t want you for a friend.’ Ripley tried to conceal her surprise. ‘Why not?’ ‘Because you’ll be gone soon, like the others. Like everybody.’ She gazed down at the doll head. ‘Casey’s okay. She’ll stay with me. But you’ll go away. You’ll be dead and you’ll leave me alone.’ There was no anger in that childish declamation, no sense of accusation or betrayal. It was delivered coolly and with complete assurance, as though the event had already occurred. It was not a prediction, but rather a statement of fact soon to take place.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“You always think you can make it up to somebody—later, you know.’ She took a deep breath. ‘But now I never can. I never can.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“Time passes. Horror does not. *”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“You’re all crazy,’ he muttered. ‘You know that.’ ‘Man,’ Vasquez told him softly, ‘why else would anyone join the Colonial Marines?”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“Impossible for me to harm or, by omission of action, allow to be harmed a human being.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“Building better worlds”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“You try kicking some butts here and they’ll eat your leg right off.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens: The Official Movie Novelization

“As all foot soldiers have known for thousands of years, there’s nothing noble about dying. Only an irritating finality.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“This time she was sure she managed a grin. ‘I can’t figure you, Hicks. Soldiers aren’t supposed to be optimists.’ ‘Yeah, I know. You’re not the first to point it out. I’m a freakin’ anomaly.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“I’ve found that most people do a lot of talking and they wind up not saying very much. Especially adults when they’re talking to children. It’s kind of like they enjoy talking at you but not to you. They want you to listen to them all the time, but they don’t want to listen to you. I think that’s pretty stupid. Just because you’re small doesn’t mean you don’t have some important things to say.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“Drake complied. ‘Learned that one in tech class,’ he informed the occupants of the operations bay. ‘Got to make sure you hit the left side only or it doesn’t work.’ ‘What happens if you hit the right side?’ Ripley asked curiously. ‘You overload the internal pressure control, the one that keeps your helmet on your head.’ She could see Drake smiling wolfishly into Frost’s camera. ‘Your eyeballs implode and your brains explode.’ ‘What brains?’ Vasquez let out a snort.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“We endanger species.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“I always keep this handy...for close encounters. (Cpl. Hicks)”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens