Science fiction Quotes · Page 31

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

— Michael Jackson

“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.”

— Laura Kreitzer

“Step up to red alert." Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." - Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf”

— Rob Grant; Grant Naylor

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define…

— Tom Shippey

“You’re insane.” “It’ll work.” “Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.”

— G.S. Jennsen

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

— Ann-Margret

“I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal”

— Lynda Williams

“God is a hack,” he said. “He’s a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can’t plot His way…

— John Scalzi

In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than…

— Peter Kendall

“You've got to have an imagination to make it to the stars. The sort of species that wouldn't invent science fiction, probably…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

How could you possibly call something science fiction at this point unless it has to do with something that hasn't been done?…

— El-P

“Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon - that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth?…

— The Wachowski Brothers

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things…

— Will Shetterly

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective…

— Alan Moore

I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine,…

— Joe Flanigan

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for…

— Matt Groening

“I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I…

— Lyda Morehouse

First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good…

— Frank Delaney

“Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their sincerity and sweetness,…

— Alan Lightman

I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that…

— Liu Cixin

Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G.…

— Peter O'Toole

I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up.…

— Moby

“Not that he wanted to say that. It would make it sound as if he wanted to blame her.. Women were very…

— Peter David

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

— Anonymous

Battlestar' could sound like whatever I wanted it to sound like, because in the science fiction environment, there are no rules.

— Bear McCreary

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

— Julian May

“I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction”

— Marcus Chown

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

— Justin Cronin

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

— Rod Serling

Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Panos Cosmatos

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

— Ivan Reitman

“Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.”

— Alex Lane

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

— Michael P. Anderson

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz”

— Anonymous

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

— Michael Sheen

“I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.”

— Voltaire

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

— Walter Wangerin

“I feel like the Earth has cracked open and swallowed me into a bottomless abyss.”

— March Lions

“When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg