John Scalzi Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Scalzi
John Scalzi Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You can be happy anywhere, if you have the right point of view. And the ability to ignore the smell of an entire planet.
You don't have paperwork," Savitri said. "You give it all to me." "Is it done?" I asked. "As far as you know, yes," Savitri said.
The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another - it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
Now What?" Kerensky said. "We wait," Dahl said. "For how long?" Kerensky said, " As long as dramatically appropriate," Dahl said.
Captain Sophia Coloma looked every inch of what she was, which was the sort of person who was not here to put up with your shit.
Because every time I think of starships skipping across the galaxy, I imagine Albert Einstein in a policeman's uniform, writing up a ticket.
Moeller also immediately discounted insults about competence, as the incompetent never question their competence about anything.
I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.
If you're the best that the Earth has got to offer, it's time we bend over and get a tentacle right up the ass.
Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).
I served with that son of a bitch, Corporal. Ruiz wouldn't compliment his mother for giving birth to him, if you know what I mean.
Well, life is like that sometimes", Isabel said. "We learn things too late, and then we don't get to use them.
To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No.
Isn't that weird?" I said. "All the different types of sentient species in the universe, and we're all different, but we all drink coffee.
People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear.
I have drinks," Hanson said, coming up behind Duvall. "Why, Jimmy," Duvall said. "That makes you my new favorite person.
You're all so busy tending to your own personal tree that you don't look around to see that the forest is on fire.
The supply transport's on autopilot most of the way down anyway. I'm just on board so that if it crashes, they can say someone died.
You can't afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.
The diagnostic said there was nothing wrong with the threep, which may have meant there was something wrong with the diagnostic.
I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
I thought this was a matter of some urgency, Harry." "It is," I said. "But I fell from the sky today. I could use a couple of waffles.
Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.
You see tools and parts and my arm shoved inside a small spacecraft, and you really have to ask what I'm doing?
Sometimes in life you're going to win and sometimes you're going to lose. But just because you lose doesn't mean the other guy needs to win.
Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.
No matter what, the Earth is fucked," Rigney said. "Excuse the language, but that's the gist of what I'm hearing from you.
I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too?" Vann asked. "She did not," I said. "It may have been implied.
There's nothing like sharing menarche with a billion hermaphrodites. I think it was everyone's first time.
Again I ask permission to be blunt." "Ambassador Abumwe, at this point I cannot imagine you being otherwise.
If knew you were going to drug me, kidnap me, and take me back to the dark ages with out my pants, I never would have slept with you.
Only Norway regularly sends colonists from Europe, and we all know of that country's ecological disasters.
Colonization is the key to our race's survival. It's as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.
And as luck would have it, a position opened up here." "It wasn't luck," Mbeke said. "It was a Longranian Ice Shark," Cassaway said.
General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway.
Dirk Moeller didn't know if he could fart his way into a major diplomatic incident. But he was ready to find out.
Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
Mom, I remember Lizzie," Hart said. "She's really not my type." "She has a brother," Wes said, from his lounge. "He's not my type, either," Hart said.
Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.
There was general agreement that Brahe was correct, until Gell-Man taught the squad to swear in Arabic.
The half-life between story of the century and not even the story of the day is quicker than you would ever guess.