Quotes on Enjoy SciFi

Small acts of kindness make all the difference

Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:01:40 +0000

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

— Gandalf (The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien)

Don’t stop thinking

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.”

— Jerry Pournelle

Why I like SciFi

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“I’m a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I’d want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It’s so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.”

— Zoe Saldana

Enacting change

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“The powerful don’t make revolutions.”

— Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time

Fear

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Catching your prey

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“If you want to catch something, running after it isn’t always the best way.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity

When not to read

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“A book’s alright when the weather’s foul and there’s nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?”

— Mercedes Lackey, By the Sword

Being Different

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.”

— Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

Pain

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:01:18 +0000

“Pain means I’m still here, fighting.”

— Corine Solomon in Devil’s Punch by Ann Aguirre

Reality and belief

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

— Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

What are cats?

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”

— Jules Verne

Taking advice

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“One of the advantages of being a captain, Doctor, is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.”

— James T. Kirk in ‘Dagger of the Mind’ from Star Trek (1966)

Things that work

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“If it is stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid. (a Shin’a’in saying)”

— Owlknight, Mercedes Lackey

What to learn

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.”

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Journeys

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:00:00 +0000

“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Thinking is the enemy of creativity

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:40:31 +0000

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

— Ray Bradbury

Protocol and Cats

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:56:57 +0000

“Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.”

— Robert A. Heinlein