Or sit they girt by laws unknown Whereto the senses serve…

“What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)”

— George Sterling

“Till her appointed course be run; Till on the darkness faint her breath Flown to the silent void, and Death Sit crowned upon the…

— George Sterling

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The…

— George Sterling

“The pathway traced with blood and tears, and dust of all our father's dead, Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red, Fade to the mist of…

— George Sterling

Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite…

— Seth Shostak

You tell me you love me, but Im not sure you know what love is, or how fast it flies, or how much it…

— Hussein Nishah

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.

— Mira Grant

As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been…

— Seth Shostak

Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie.

— Judd Nelson

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

— Iris Chang

I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

North Korea is still my homeland, my country. I suffered on the outside because I was alien, without identity. I was nobody. I was…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered…

— Seth Shostak

“If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' 'Lots of planets have a north!”

— Russell T Davies

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely…

— Richard Powers