They're listed mostly by author -- Marge Piercy, for instance (one of my faves, but who knew she'd done SF?).
"We often settle for sex when we want love. And we often want love when we need something else, like a good job or a chance to go back to school." --Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
The site includes a number of quotations from the recently deceased Stanislaw Lem, the newly trendy C.S. Lewis, as well as Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, and H.G. Wells.
They are arranged by author name. At the bottom of the index page (linked above) are links to other possible sources including: Memorable Quotations: Mathematicians (Lewis Carroll, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell) Memorable Quotations: Fabulists (Aesop, Jean de La Fontaine) Memorable Quotations: Scientists (Roger Bacon, Eugenie Clark, Freeman Dyson, Albert Einstein, J. B. S. Haldane, Ruth Hubbard, Thomas Henry Huxley, Sir Peter Medawar) Memorable Quotations: British Women Writers Memorable Quotations: English Writers of the Past Memorable Quotations: Scots Memorable Quotations: Scottish Writers Memorable Quotations: Screenwriters Memorable Quotations: Singers Memorable Quotations: Songwriters
A keen book from Yale Uni. PresspickledgingerApril 9 2006, 04:33:53 UTC
Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits Edited by Gary Westfahl; Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke
A review, HERE, on the vendor's Web site, lists these quotations from the book:
From Science Fiction Quotations: “There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”-Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix (film, 1999)
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”-Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. --Mark Twain
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? --Kelvin Throop, III
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. --Robert A. Heinlein
And, at the bottom of the page, there are links to scores of other categories, including: Ray Bradbury quotes; Future quotes; Reality quotes; Mathematics quotes; Math quotes (a larger file); and South Park quotes, among many others.
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They're listed mostly by author -- Marge Piercy, for instance (one of my faves, but who knew she'd done SF?).
"We often settle for sex when we want love. And we often want love when we need something else, like a good job or a chance to go back to school."
--Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
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The site includes a number of quotations from the recently deceased Stanislaw Lem, the newly trendy C.S. Lewis, as well as Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, and H.G. Wells.
They are arranged by author name. At the bottom of the index page (linked above) are links to other possible sources including:
Memorable Quotations: Mathematicians (Lewis Carroll, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell)
Memorable Quotations: Fabulists (Aesop, Jean de La Fontaine)
Memorable Quotations: Scientists (Roger Bacon, Eugenie Clark, Freeman Dyson, Albert Einstein, J. B. S. Haldane, Ruth Hubbard, Thomas Henry Huxley, Sir Peter Medawar)
Memorable Quotations: British Women Writers
Memorable Quotations: English Writers of the Past
Memorable Quotations: Scots
Memorable Quotations: Scottish Writers
Memorable Quotations: Screenwriters
Memorable Quotations: Singers
Memorable Quotations: Songwriters
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Edited by Gary Westfahl; Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke
A review, HERE, on the vendor's Web site, lists these quotations from the book:
From Science Fiction Quotations:
“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”-Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix (film, 1999)
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”-Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
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http://quotations.home.worldnet.att.net/fiction.html
It includes these tidbits:
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
--Mark Twain
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
--Kelvin Throop, III
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
--Robert A. Heinlein
And, at the bottom of the page, there are links to scores of other categories, including: Ray Bradbury quotes; Future quotes; Reality quotes; Mathematics quotes; Math quotes (a larger file); and South Park quotes, among many others.
Reply
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