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Douglas Adams13 quotes
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. — Douglas Adams · 1992The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything...it's Forty-two. — Douglas Adams · 1978Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. — Douglas Adams · 1992A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams · 1992Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? — Douglas Adams · 1979He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. — Douglas Adams · 1979All 13 quotes →Morpheus9 quotes
You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. — Morpheus · 1999The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now in this very room. — Morpheus · 1999I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it. — Morpheus · 1999All I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more. — Morpheus · 1999You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. — Morpheus · 1999Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. — Morpheus · 1999All 9 quotes →Joel Barish8 quotes
I can't see anything that I don't like about you. Right now I can't. — Joel Barish · 2004What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger. — Joel Barish · 2004Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? — Joel Barish · 2004Please let me keep this memory, just this one. — Joel Barish · 2004It will be different. If we could just give it another go-round. — Joel Barish · 2004Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. — Joel Barish · 2004All 8 quotes →Narrator (Twilight Zone)6 quotes
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1960For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1960There is nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1962There's a saying, every man is put on Earth condemned to die, time and method of execution unknown. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1959You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone! — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1960It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1964Obi-Wan Kenobi5 quotes
The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977Your father...was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed. — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1983He's more machine now than man. Twisted and evil. — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1983If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977Clementine Kruczynski4 quotes
People have to share things, Joel. That's what intimacy is. — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours. — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004What if you stayed this time? — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Let's pretend we had one. — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004Darth Vader4 quotes
I am your father. — Darth Vader · 1980Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son. — Darth Vader · 1980The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master. — Darth Vader · 1977You underestimate the power of the Dark Side. If you will not fight, then you will meet your destiny. — Darth Vader · 1983Robert A. Heinlein4 quotes
An armed society is a polite society. — Robert A. Heinlein · 1942Maybe Jesus was right when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth-but they inherit very small plots, about six feet by three. — Robert A. Heinlein · 1973The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. — Robert A. Heinlein · 1973Does history record any case in which the majority was right? — Robert A. Heinlein · 1973Malcolm3 quotes
Life, uh, finds a way. — Malcolm · 1993Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should. — Malcolm · 1993If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories, and crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh, well, there it is. — Malcolm · 1993Yoda3 quotes
No. Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try. — Yoda · 1980When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. — Yoda · 1983A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the Dark Side. Anger, fear, aggression. The Dark Side of the force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will. — Yoda · 1983Cooper2 quotes
Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here. — Cooper · 2014We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt. — Cooper · 2014Cypher2 quotes
I know what you’re thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why, oh why, didn't I take the blue pill? — Cypher · 1999Ignorance is bliss. — Cypher · 1999Dark Helmet2 quotes
Fuck! Even in the future nothing works. — Dark Helmet · 1987What are you preparing? You're always preparing! Just go! — Dark Helmet · 1987Frank Herbert2 quotes
There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves. — Frank Herbert · 1985I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total Obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. — Frank Herbert · 1965Marty McFly2 quotes
Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean? — Marty McFly · 1985Wow. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me? — Marty McFly · 1985The Terminator2 quotes
Hasta la vista, baby. — The Terminator · 1991It's in your nature to destroy yourselves. — The Terminator · 1991Arthur C. Clarke1 quote
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. — Arthur C. Clarke · 1951Attar1 quote
Take your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human! — Attar · 2001Brand1 quote
Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but...it can't run backwards. Just can't. The only thing that can move across dimensions, like time, is gravity. — Brand · 2014Bryant1 quote
You know the score, pal. If you're not a cop, you're little people! — Bryant · 1982Captain B. McCrea1 quote
I don't want to survive, I want to live! — Captain B. McCrea · 2008Cobb1 quote
An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious and the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you. — Cobb · 2010Danny Witwer1 quote
Science has stolen most of our miracles. — Danny Witwer · 2002Dr. Eldon Tyrell1 quote
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy. — Dr. Eldon Tyrell · 1982Dr. Emmett Brown1 quote
My calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit. — Dr. Emmett Brown · 1985Dutch1 quote
If it bleeds, we can kill it. — Dutch · 1987E.T.1 quote
E.T. Phone home. — E.T. · 1982Eames1 quote
You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. — Eames · 2010General Kimsey1 quote
We spend 250 billion dollars a year on defense and here we are. The fate of the planet is in the hands of a bunch of retards I wouldn't trust with a potato gun. — General Kimsey · 1998Ginger1 quote
Machines need love too! — Ginger · 1984