Aliens Quotes - Page 14

• Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.

  Mark Haddon

  Writing, Oddities, People

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• 'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

  Jackie Earle Haley

  Monsters, Horror, Film

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• It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

  Olivia Wilde

  Character, Cowboy, Opportunity

  "Olivia Wilde: The best dates end at dawn". Interview with Jenna Milly, www.sheknows.com. August 4, 2011.

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• A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Real, Titles, Deeds

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

  Helen McCrory

  Country, Smell, America

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Fall, Autumn

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1956). “The American Essays”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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• It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Betrayal, Mistake, Self

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• You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it on to her, to communicate again with her through the channel dug by others' words, which, as they are uttered by an alien voice, by the voice of that silent nobody made of ink and typographical spacing, can become yours and hers, a language, a code between the two of you, a means to exchange signals and recognize each other.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

  Bill Watterson

  Sarcastic, Hero, Feet

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• And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tombstone, Men, Long

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Doors, World, Shrines

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.14, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.

  Ann Coulter

  Illegal, Commentary, Jokes

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.76, Crown Forum

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• Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

  Clive Barker

  Reality, Criminals, Alien Life

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from May 14, 2013

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• Immortals are never alien to one another.

  Homer

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• People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves.

  Mark Haddon

  Moving, Reflection, Thinking

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• She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.

  Christopher Moore

  Machines, Tantrums, Eating

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

  Charles Bukowski

  Two, Hours

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• Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken.

  Thomas Merton

  Attitude, Wind, Clothes

  Thomas Merton (1980). “The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton”, p.351, New Directions Publishing

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• Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears. I'd seen many things in his eyes in the time that I'd known him: lust, amusement, sympathy, mockery, caution, fury. But I had never seen this. Hope. Jericho Barrons had hope, and I was the reason for it. I would never forget his smile. It had illuminated him from the inside out.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Grief, Eye, Lust

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1387, Dell

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• I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom

  Richard Wright

  Rain, Wind, Leaving

  Richard Wright (1997). “Richard Wright Reader”

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• We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Growing Up, Invaders

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “Running in the Family”, p.74, Vintage

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• What's this?" "That's a mango." Simon stared at Jace. Sometimes it really is like Shadowhunters were from an alien planet. "I don't think I've seen one of those that wasn't already cut up," Jace mused. "I like mangoes." Simon grabbed the mango and tossed it into the cart. "Great. What else do you like?" Jace pondered for a moment. "Tomato soup," he said finally. "Tomato soup? You want tomato soup and a mango for dinner?" Jace shrugged. "I don't really care about food.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cutting, Thinking, Tomatoes

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• The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Stupid, Hands

  Oscar Wilde (2018). “Oscar Wilde Collection”, p.11, Youcanprint

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• Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

  Steven Moffat

  Doctors, Rose, Sound

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• A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Years, Lunch

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.128, Anchor

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