Unidentified Quotes

“In my book, though, they should have changed Unidentified Flying Objects to Mysterious Otherworldly Flying Objects—or MOFOs. This name was more accurate after all. And I’d give my last dollar to hear TV reporters using the new acronym.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Again, things were taking a turn for the absurd. An alien had just told me I might live for thousands of years. The only problem was, I’d almost been killed on multiple occasions in the past seventy-two hours.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Neurons and galaxies were both assembled together in a complex web, spread out in long filaments and nodes that linked them up. Additional analysis revealed that the distribution of the neuronal network in the brain and the distribution of matter in the cosmic web were eerily similar.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“was a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Boy purchases girl to protect him. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy prays that girl won’t let him die horribly as he puts his UFO-questing nose where various parties don’t want it to be.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“So”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Well, you know what they say: everything seems to take longer when you’re crammed inside a footlocker.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Bulging biceps?” she repeated with a broad grin. “Wow. Your imagination is even more potent than I thought.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“A famous poem I had quoted in a novel came to mind: “And how can a man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods?” How, indeed?”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“If I wasn’t my own harshest critic, I might start feeling important about now.” Nick smiled. “Then I’m glad I didn’t tell you we plan to give you tech that changes water into wine,” he said with a twinkle in his eye.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Hell, I was pretty sure I still loved her, even though I now hated her also.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Mark Zuckerberg is an optimist, whereas Elon Musk and Bill Gates are very much the opposite, as was the late Stephen Hawking.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“If births continued and deaths were severely curtailed, overpopulation would soon cause devastating effects.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Befriending a lion on its home turf was one thing, allowing it to roam free in Manhattan was quite another.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“she whispered through the pain,”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Open Says Me”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“It’s a false flag operation, and they’ve been successful.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Great,” I said, rolling my eyes. “We’ll get the chance to know what it feels like to be an ear of corn as a thick cloud of locusts approach.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“holding cell Brad and Tessa were in,”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“She could remain a prisoner for life, or I could end her now. Was keeping her a prisoner forever really the compassionate choice? Or would letting her die now be a mercy,”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Consciousness is a quantum effect. Even your scientists have begun to realize this.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“What you’re doing would be like us allying with Russia against England, our closest friend.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“dogs sleep on padded beds inside heated homes.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“how maddeningly cryptic the AI can be.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“If you’re able to stun and disable someone hell-bent on killing you, you don’t continue running. You make sure they stay down. Period.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“kangaroos. They were technically nocturnal”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Mainly due to social media,” replied Brad. “It’s the most divisive technology the world has ever seen. It’s polarizing and promotes our worst tendencies. Mistrust, tribalism, zealotry. And it fosters and aids in the mobilization of those intent on violence. We’ve been working on ways to eliminate social media for years, but short of killing the internet—which would cripple the world—we haven’t come up with any solutions. So we just have to continue battling the violence it inspires.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“Thankfully,” said the alien, “humanity has matured considerably since I’ve been here.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“The Tasman Sea covers about a million square miles, located more or less between Australia and New Zealand. And east of Tasmania, which is a large island with over a thousand smaller islands around it. But we aren’t on any of these.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“in Mandarin”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified

“it was always good to have a glass box to break in case of emergency.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Unidentified