Alien Quotes
539 quotes by 431 authors
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I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.
— Ann Coulter
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And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath…
— Vikram Chandra
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina…
— Pat Conroy
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Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.
— Clive Barker
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Immortals are never alien to one another.
— Homer
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People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because…
— Mark Haddon
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She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.
— Christopher Moore
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Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has…
— Thomas Merton
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But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries…
— Sidney Poitier
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Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.
— Paul Eluard
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Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.
— Neal Stephenson
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The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one…
— Hermann Hesse
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Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.
— Christopher Paolini
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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I…
— William S. Burroughs
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But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against…
— Jack London
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Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.
— Katherine Applegate
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I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it’s…
— Jan Neruda
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One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt…
— Aldous Huxley
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We of alien looks or words must stick together.
— C.J. Sansom
Who Wrote These Alien Quotes
431 authors contributed a total of 539 Alien Quotes, led by these top contributors: