Alien Quotes

539 quotes by 431 authors

Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional,… — Mal Peet
Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument… — Antony Hegarty
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of… — Chris Ware
Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity." — Kenny Smith
I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me. — Jeremy Irons
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never… — Sanaa Lathan
When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter, no jobs… — Jack Handey
If Alien was my friend, I'd like to be with him when he went to the dentist. When they started drilling, he'd probably go nuts… — Jack Handey
I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any… — Tara Subkoff
There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in… — Walther Rathenau
The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways. — John Cowper Powys
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock
Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and… — Eckhart Tolle
The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of… — Chinweizu Ibekwe
So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies. — Rick Yancey
Joel Lane documents a life we donâ€™t quite live, in a city we canâ€™t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know itâ€™s out… — Chaz Brenchley
When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless… — Scott Berkun
I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass… — Robert Goolrick
Dear Humanity; we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass… — Avery Johnson

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