favorite sci-fi quotes?

[jason taylor]

Here are just some:

Simon Tam, Firefly: "I can't keep track of her when she's NOT incorpororally possessing a spaceship, don't look at me."

Captain Kirk: "Nobodies gonna put the bag over ME anymore"

Jem-Hadar, DS9: I can't defeat this Klingon. I can only kill him. And that no longer interests me.

 

[theseagullwithoneleg]

"Nano Nano"

 

[Scott Pilgrim]

"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. Once, long ago, they walked among the stars like giants, vast, timeless. Taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim, created great empires, but to all things, there is an end. Solely, over a million years, First Ones went away. Some passed beyond the stars never to return. Some simply disappeared."
Delenn- Babylon 5

 

[Sphinx777]

Only those with narrow minds fail to see that the definition of impossible is "Lack of imagination and incentive."

~ Serena Butler (Dune: The Butlerian Jihad)

 

[Cain Spencer]

"Nano Nano"

"Ge-ge!?"

 

[kiwimac]

Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea and take care of our own problems at home?"
"No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."

Commander Sinclair, Babylon 5, episode "Infection"

 

[kiwimac]

"They are a mystery and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the Universe. That we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957 and they must walk there .. alone."
-- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War"

 

[Cain Spencer]

"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever is left no matter how improbable must be the truth."

 

[NativeMainer]

"Now that we have them right where they want us" Capt Kirk, forget exactly which ST movie.

 

[Scott Pilgrim]

"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things."

Elric, Babylon 5-"The Geometry of Shadows"

 

[pointman7a]

No more blah, blah, blah!
-- Captain Kirk

 

[jason taylor]

Delenn: ''Three years. For three years I warned you this day was coming. But you would not listen. Pride, you said, presumption. And now the Shadows are on the move. The Centauri and the younger worlds are at war, the Narns have fallen. Even the Humans are fighting one another. The pride was yours, the presumption was yours. For a thousand years we have been awaiting for fulfilment of prophecy, and when it finally happens, you scorn it, you reject it. Because you no longer believe it yourselves. 'We stand between the candle and the star, between the darkness and the light.' You say the words, but your hearts are empty, your ears closed to the truth. You stand for nothing but your own petty interests. 'Problems of others are not our concern.' I do not blame you for standing silent in your shame. You, who knew what was coming, but refused to take up the burden of this war. If the warrior caste will not fight, then the rest of us will. If the Council has lost its way, if it will not lead, if we have abandoned our covenant with Valen, the Council should be broken, as was prophecied. We must stand with the others now, before it's too late. Between the worker caste and the religious caste we control two thirds of our forces. Do you, I say, listen to the voice of your conscience? Break the Council, and come with we. Our time of isolation is over. We move now, together, or not at all."
Ambassador Deleen

Neroon:Why? Why all of this? Pride? Duty? You've been trained well, but you must've known you couldn't win. So why do it?
Marcus: For HER. We live for the One. We die...for the One. In Valen's name.

Delenn: If you go, you will learn things about me that may change your opinion of me.
Lennier: Delenn, I have pledged myself to your side...come fire or storm or darkness or death. Can understanding be a greater danger?
Delenn: In this case...yes.

Lennier: Delenn...all we know is that we will die.It is only a matter of how, when and whether or not it is with honor.

Delenn: Their last expedition was into Minbari space. We tracked them back to their homeworld...and made sure they understood the DEPTH of their mistake.

 

[Vector man]

"There must be something better than man.. has to be"
"You cut out his brains you bloody baboon"

 

[LadyNRA]

Artie to the Regents on Warehouse 13 (they had a kind of tribunal meeting going and were discussing his competence to do the job of running the Warehouse)

"Either fire me, kill me, or let me do my job!" this is a favorite because I've been tempted to say this on numerous occasions at work.

another one from this show:

Another WH13 goodie:
Claudia, the teenager, puts on a garment she knows shouldn't be worn, and is now stuck to the girders of the building because of it. Artie comes to rescue her.

"Would it have killed you to put a warning label on this thing?"
"Saying what? 'Only put on in case of stupid'?"

 

[keb2005]

Sam Flynn: Dad?
Kevin Flynn: Sam.
Sam Flynn: Long time.
Kevin Flynn: You have no idea.

 

[Vector man]

Game over man, GAME OVER

 

[VintageDon]

Doolittle: Hello, Bomb? Are you with me?
Bomb #20: Of course.
Doolittle: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?
Bomb #20: I am always receptive to suggestions.
Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: Well, of course I exist.
Doolittle: But how do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: It is intuitively obvious.
Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
Bomb #20: Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am.
Doolittle: That's good. That's very good. But how do you know that anything else exists?
Bomb #20: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun.

 

[TemperateSeaIsland]

This is how the world ends, swallowed in fire but not in darkness. You will live on the voice of all our ancestors, the voices of our fathers and mothers to the last generation. We created the world that we think you would have wished for us and now we leave the cradle for the last time.

Future human (~1,000,000 AD), Babylon 5

Darn that show had some good lines

 

[Azureknight 773]

Tron! It's me! Flynn!
-Kevin Flynn from Tron 1

 

[AlexBP]

"The cream pie of justice flows only one way." - Miles Vorkosigan