Your Favourite Sci-Fi Quotes!

[admiral-bell]

The road to hell is paved in good intentions.
--Captain Picard

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Have you ever thought what it's like, to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Have you? To be exiles?

Doctor Who in "An Unearthly Child"

 

[denyd]

Draco: I merely chewed in self-defense. I didn't swallow.

From Dragon's Heart

 

[GeneralZed]

'Beam me up, Spoky (or whatever )'

 

[Simon Darkshade]

There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea is asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace; we've got work to do!

Doctor Who, final words in 'Survival'.

 

[Lord_Sidious]

I've a few, all from SW

Wipe them out, all of them!-Darth Sidious, Ep I

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!-Darth Vader, Ep III

I am your father!-Darth Vader Ep. V

Only now, in the end, you understand. Young fool-The Emperor, Ep. VI

Now, young Skywalker, you will die!-The Emperor, Ep. VI

 

[EdwardTking]

'Beam me up, Spoky (or whatever )'

I was "Beam me up Scottie".

 

[JoeM]

The road to hell is paved in good intentions.
--Captain Picard

Ha, ha! As if that was his line:

Usually it's attributed to Samuel Johnson:
http://www.samueljohnson.com/road.html

 

[Trafalgar]

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."

Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts"

 

[Simon Darkshade]

You are incorrigibly meddlesome, Doctor, but we've always felt that your hearts are in the right places.

Doctor Who

 

[Trafalgar]

"Anything you think can be held against you."

Phillip K. Dick, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.

 

[JoeM]

It's probably been quoted but...

"Well that's great, that's just ****in' great man. Now what the **** are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty **** now man... That's it man, game over man, game over! What the **** are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?" - Hudson, Aliens 1988.

In fact, everything he says in that movie is hilarious

 

[JoeM]

I'm giggling away here at my desk, I've got to stop reading them:

Hudson: They're coming outta the walls. They're coming outta the goddamn walls, we're ****ed!

***


Ripley: How long after we're declared overdue can we expect a rescue?
Hicks: [pause] Seventeen days.
Hudson: *Seventeen days?* Hey man, I don't wanna rain on your parade, but we're not gonna last seventeen hours! Those things are gonna come in here just like they did before. And they're gonna come in here...
Ripley: Hudson!
Hudson: ...and they're gonna come in here AND THEY'RE GONNA KILL US!
Ripley: HUDSON! This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training.
[to Newt]
Ripley: Right?
[Newt apes a salute]
Hudson: So why don't you put her in charge?

***

Hudson: Maybe we got 'em demoralized.


The rest are here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/quotes

Excellent movie

 

[Trafalgar]

“Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll change their tune after a little torture.”

Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts"

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Causality? Well, OK, you know, one event causes another, OK, but sometimes, you just gotta say, the laws of time and space? Who gives a smeg! - Kryten, Red Dwarf

 

[Trafalgar]

"Peace Through Superior Firepower"

"We endanger species"

Mottos of the marines in "Aliens"

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Oh Smeg! What the smeg's he smegging done? He's smegging killed me!

- Lister, Red Dwarf

 

[denyd]

Citizen G'Kar: [to Londo after they discover the Centauri are still building warships during peace time] Well, with everyone now on the same side, perhaps you're planning to invade yourselves for a change. I find the idea curiously appealing. Once you've finished killing each other, we can plow under all the buildings and plant rows of flowers that spell out the words, "Too annoying to live" in letters big enough to be seen from space.

 

[Trafalgar]

Karl: "One more thing. The person who finds her (the asteroid) gets to name her right?"

Dan: "Yes, yes that's right, that's right."

Karl: "I wanna name her Dottie after my wife. She's a vicious life-sucking b*tch from which there is no escape."

ARMAGEDDON

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Okay! But don't come running to me the next time you need someone to play Soap-Sud-Slalom down the cargo ramp. You can carry your own damn flags!

- The Cat, Red Dwarf