Quote

"If a man walks in dressed like a hick, and acting as if he owned the place, he's a spaceman."

Lorenzo Smythe
Double Star
by Robert A. Heinlein
1956

World within world within world...

"Hazel wished she had something in her hands to throw. She looked away and sat down.

"She opened up the new library book she'd brought for the bus ride and willed her thoughts to disappear in the pages. The girl in it was reading A Wrinkle in Time. She was best friends with a boy who lived in the apartment below. And then one day the boy stopped talking to her. Hazel closed the book."

Breadcrumbs
by Anna Ursu
p. 131

Hazel, the main character of Breadcrumbs, reading Newbery winner When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, in which Miranda, like Hazel, loves A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Cute.

Jellyratfish

“Morphologically, we’ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we’ve built a jellyfish. Genetically, this thing is a rat.” 

Kit Parker, a biophysicist at Harvard University.

There's a SyFy channel movie here somewhere.

Quote

"I am Locutus of Borg."

Captain Picard
Star Trek: the Next Generation
"The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1"

Quote

There's no such thing as a bad idea. Just poorly executed awesome ones."

Damon
Vampire Diaries
"The Dinner Party"

Quote

"Pardon me, by why is Lieutenant Barclay being referred to clandestinely as a vegetable?"

Data
Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Hollow Pursuits"

Quote

"Fantasy, unlike science fiction, relies on a moral universe: it is less an argument with the universe than a sermon on the way things should be..."

Rhetorics of Fantasy
by Farah Mendlesohn
2008

Quote (Classic)

"What color are their hands now?"

Beauregard and Miss Piggy
The Great Muppet Caper

Quote (Classic)

"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."

Jessica Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988

Quote

"Mulder, toads just fell from the sky."

Agent Scully
The X-Files
"Die Hand Die Verletz"
1995

Quote

"Because the only thing I hate more than hippy, neo-liberal fascist anarchists are the hypocrite fat cat suits they eventually grow up to become." 


Casey
Chuck
"Chuck vs. the Beard"




hippy, neo-liberal fascist anarchists!

Quote

"I think of it as a sort of Questynge Beste: it hath a head like literary fiction, feet like a graphic novel, a body like somebody's diary and a tail like a text message, and maketh a noise like a cafeteria full of twelve- to eighteen-year-olds."


-- A description of young adult literature by Sofia Samatar




Strange Horizons web magazine

from a review of Margo Lanagan's collection Yellowcake

Quote

"It's insane. And it's about to get insanerer."

The Doctor
Doctor Who
"The Rebel Flesh"
2011

Quote

"She tricked my son with her carnal manipulations and he fell right into her vagenda."

Walter Bishop

Fringe

"Entrada"

2010

New favorite word!

Quote

"One is my name. The other is not."

Lieutenant Commander Data

Star Trek: The Next Generation

"The Child"
1988

Quote

"The human fascination with 'fun' has led to many tragedies in your short but violent history. One wonders how your race has survived having so much 'fun.'"


Tuvok
Star Trek: Voyager
"Flashback"


To which my husband adds, "This is what we sound like to the Vulcans: 'Hey, Bubba, watch this!'"

Quote

"He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger's pedestrian."

The City and the City
by China Mieville
2009

Quote

"He is a relic of tigerhood, a bygone age when great cats knew calculus and dactylic hexameter and held a court of dreams in the jungle."

Palimpsest
by Catherynne M. Valente
2009

Quote

"He liked to think about the Vestals in their great round house, which always looked to him like a salt mill, tending their little fires and writing diaries forever lost, diaries of quiet lives spooled out into virginity and the contemplation of a goddess of whom no stories were told at all."

Palimpsest
by Catherynne M. Valente
2009

Quote

"See, now you're just stringing words together."

Sheriff Carter to a technobabbling Dr. Grant
"Crossing Over"
Eureka
8/6/2010