Aliens Quotes · Page 9

If aliens are smart enough to travel through space, why do they keep abducting the dumbest people on Earth?

— Hussein Nishah

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an…

— William Hurrell Mallock

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

— T. S. Eliot

“Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.”

— Gregory Benford

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

— Marya Mannes

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

— Max Lerner

Alien is one of my favourite films. I'm a classic horror fan. It's a tough one for me, because I get scared…

— Alison Brie

“They were here from the beginning. They have reshaped our lives, run us from our homes. They were always here.”

— Nadège Richards

“You ever flown something before?" (Christopher) "I hold the highest score at A.S.U. for Star Wars: Starfighter." (Kitty) "I know, beyond a…

— Gini Koch

Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty…

— Frank Drake

Despite the repeated attacks on American citizens by illegal aliens released from our jails, DHS refuses to stop freeing violent criminals who…

— Matt Salmon

If Alien was my friend, I'd like to be with him when he went to the dentist. When they started drilling, he'd…

— Jack Handey

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes…

— Michael Moriarty

Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have…

— Kenny Smith

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true…

— Albert Einstein

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent…

— John L. Lewis

In the next century or two, we humans will have planet-finder telescopes that span our solar system with mirrors strewn from here…

— Geoffrey Marcy

I was looking, a piece in the "L.A. Times" about a paper called "The Menace" back in 1915, that was railing against…

— Chris Hayes

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am…

— Adrienne Rich

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of…

— Andrew Solomon

I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s…

— Paul Eluard

What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He…

— David Duchovny

We all bear within us the potentiality for every kind of passion, every fate, every way of life. Nothing human is alien…

— Max Reinhardt

“Whatever else the entity was, Young was starting to suspect it was also part cockroach.”

— J. Fally

I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!

— Peter Jacobson

“What were you doing out here?” He chuckled. “Looking for aliens. What else?”

— B.J. Daniels

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

— Glen Cook

“We stared into the eyes of death and death blinked first. Youd think that would make us feel invincible. It didnt”

— Rick Yancey

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

— Richard Bach

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are…

— Anonymous

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted…

— Octavia Spencer

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

— John F. Kennedy

“They don’t represent their faith, they represent hate and hate will kill the world just as quickly as any aliens might.”

— Michael Anderle

“Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies. -- Timothy Leary”

— Anonymous

“Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed—if they’re here, I want to know about them.”

— Carl Sagan

I loved the extended version of 'Aliens' because it shows just a little bit more that you don't see and what they…

— Mekhi Phifer

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

— Walter Hill

What they are doing is disarming in the battle to stop illegal drugs and illegal aliens.

— Lamar S. Smith

Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.

— David Letterman