OT: Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Whatever Quotes

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Slick said:
I'm sure. Ol' Snake had some great ones too.

Well then, post 'em!

'His eyes opened. He turned his head toward the entrance of the cave and glared at the bright Syrian day beyond.

"The Beast is upon us."' From An Oblique Approach (Rather violent series)

'Liz looked intently at the chain. "Jerry. You can't break it. But can you change it? Pan always worked from scraps when he was making those instruments."

A triangle is the simplest of musical instruments. It also has an open corner.

Ten minutes later, Prometheus was free.' - Pyramid Scheme, Dave Freer & Eric Flint

'Seconds later, Throttler was beaming. "These are great!" she announced to Smitar and Bitar. "You should try some!"

A moment later, the sphinx and the dragons were being mobbed by tourists offering peanuts and candy bars.

"Gonna ruin their appetite," muttered Lamont. "Thank God."' - Same

' Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

—Murphy's law #1024

. . . and sometimes the real trick is telling the difference.

—Murphy's law #1024a ' - Wizardy Compiled, Rick Cook

' If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long.

—California saying

To you or the toad.

—Niven's restatement of California saying

—well, most of the time anyway . . .

—programmer's caveat to Niven's
restatement of California saying ' - Same

'Rat sashimi, Wiz decided, wasn't half bad—if you used lots of wasabe. He didn't have any wasabe, but it still wasn't half bad.' - Same

'"There's one issue we've got to settle first," Nancy said. "Catching errors."

"What's the matter, don't you like electric blue cockroaches?" Danny asked.

"Cockroaches I can live with. They glow in the dark and that makes them easy to squash. I'm more concerned about HMC or EOI-type errors."

"HMC and EOI?"

"Halt, Melt and Catch fire or Execute Operator Immediately." ' - Same

[narf poit chez BOOM]

'I ready the picnic lunch! I ready the picnic lunch the dark forces of sauron made us...' - Dork Tower, John Kovalic

[TurinTurambar]

OK Narf. So, you like this thread do you?

Giggling,
Turin

[Ron_Lugge]

And so it begins.
-Kash, Babylon 5, on many seperate occasions.

Truth is a three edged sword: my side, your side, the truth.
-Paraphrase of John J. Sheridan, Babylon 5, facing the combined Shadow / Vorlon armada

The avalanche has already started; it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
-Kash, Babylon 5

This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw... or be destroyed."
"Negative, we have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."
"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with the Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives... BE somewhere else!"
-Babylon 5, betwen Ambassadore Delenn and a ship's captain, in Severed Dreams

There is a hole in your mind.
Babylon 5, Series Premier

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, would it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
-Marcus Cole, babylon 5

I am a Ranger. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no-one may pass. We live for the One, we die for the One.
-Ranger's Oath, Babylon 5

If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they'd have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea. Hell, I always thought the opposable thumb was overrated
-Babylon 5

A darkness carried in the heart can not be cured by moving the body from one place to another.
-Do I really need to tell you?

You can't turn away from death simply because you're afraid of what might happen without you. That's not enough! You're not embracing life. You're fleeing death....Your friends need what you can be when you are no longer afraid, when you know who you are and why you are and what you want, when you are no longer looking for reasons to live, but can simply be.

The next time .. the next time .. you want a revelation .. could you possibly find a way .. that isn't .. quite so .. uncomfortable?
-Marcus Cole, upon being beaten half to death.

"Breen. You've managed to import breen from homeworld. How?"
"It .. isn't actually breen."
"But the smell, the taste..."
"It's an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs. I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never get explained or which will drive you mad if you ever learned the truth."

"Every day, here and at home, we are warned about the enemy. But who is the enemy? Is it the alien? Well, we are all alien to one another. Is it the one who believes differently than we do? No, not at all, my friends. The enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the one who tells you that you must hate that which is different. Because, in the end, that hate will turn on you. And that same hate will destroy you."

"I thought the purpose of filing these reports was to provide accurate intelligence."
"Vir, intelligence has nothing to do with politics."

"We are the universe, trying to understand itself"

"I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate."

"Then the tragedy is greater than I thought. Without forgiveness you can not mourn, and without mourning you can never let go of the pain."

"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest."

"Ah! He has become one with his inner self!"
"He's passed out."
"That too."

"I've never understood that. Why does the universe give us puzzles with no answers?"
"Pay back, maybe?"

"Faith manages."

"We put you in this position, G'Kar. Our reverence is our gift to you, and you are responsible to us. You owe us. Without us .. you are nothing."
"Then I am nothing. Good day."

-- A Narn and G'Kar in Babylon 5: "Objects in Motion"

"Why? What's inside there?"
"One moment of perfect beauty."

There are so many more good ones, but I think I'll leave it here.

edit:

Oh, and a link:

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Quotes/B5-quotes.html

[Emperor's Child]

"No, Luke, I am your Father!"
"Noooooooooooo!"

-Darth to Luke, ESB

[massmanfun]

"'Eh Luke, I'm your father, come join the dark side, ya hoser"

- Bob McKenzie "Strange Brew"