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"Until you meet an alien intelligence you will not know what it is to be human."
Alien, n: A being who travels great distances to molest our cattle and trample our grain.
Ellen Ripley: Whenever he says anything, you say, "right," Brett. You know that?
Brett: Right. (Alien)
'Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.'-- Natalie Goldberg
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."-- Nathalie Sarraute
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."-- Noelie Alito
"Nothing in the world is friendlier than a wet dog."
Science is the belief that we don't need belief to know most things.
Reality is an illusion created by alcohol deficiency.
"Friends don't let Friends drive Naked."
Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.-- Moliere
Lies, damned lies and user documentation.
Johner: I heard you, like, ran into these things before.
Ripley: That's right.
Johner: Wow, man. So, like, what did you do?
Ripley: I died.
(Alien: Resurrection)
You humans are all alike.
Doubt your beliefs and believe your doubts.
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world."-- Russell Baker
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forget their use.-- Galileo Galilei
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
Hindsight is an exact science.
"All the people stared as if we were both quite insane."-- The Hollies
"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God."
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
Beware the fury of a patient woman.
Nowadays, originality is the art of concealing your source.
Fungus is actually alive. Be afraid.
"Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed."-- Dalin B. Oaks
I think having 'Men' and 'Women' signs on bathrooms is a bad idea, because if aliens thought those rooms held standard specimens and went in to record data, they'd get some pretty bizarre examples.-- April Van Scherpe
You don't have to think too hard while talking to teachers.-- J.D. Salinger
Monster AI is still in development. Some monsters may seem to be ignoring you until you actually shoot them. This is because as small aliens they refused to eat their humans and as a result suffered brain damage. We will be taking measures to ensure that all aliens receive a proper diet before the final release.-- Quake 2 Demo disclaimer
"*snort* I'm waiting for the day when people realise that mainstream is a subset of SF without the speculation..."-- Emmet O'Brien
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines-- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies."-- Adrienne Gusoff
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.-- Disraeli
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
God made us sisters. Prozac made us friends.
I'm always making a comeback, but nobody ever tells me where I've been.-- Billie Holiday
Never only doubt or only believe your doubts.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
You'll go to Heck if you don't believe in Gosh.
She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers.-- Dr. Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters.)