Quotes About Arthur

This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.

The fancy that sensations are symbols and not realities hovered in his mind, and led him to speculate as to whether they could not actually be transmuted one into another.

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

Aucun des sophismes de la folie, - la folie qu'on enferme, - n'a été oublié par moi : je pourrais les redire tous, je tiens le système.

Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos.

Manton said: "Sin knows no mother but our own heart." "And sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death":

Arthur sighed and barely managed to whisper, "Key... hold the Hour Hand for... a minute... a minute...

the Secondary Realms. Not from Earth, for a change. Probably @@@@@@@@ or Æ???f‡." "Where?" asked Arthur. "Who?" He couldn't even begin

confirmation is one of the most important and serendipitous storytelling opportunities we in youth ministry will ever have.

Well, I guess [2001: A Space Odyssey] legitimized [science fiction], particularly for people who looked down on science fiction; you know, the intelligentsia. My definition of the intelligentsia: someone who's educated beyond their intelligence.

I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997.

The trouble with cliché's, some philosopher remarked, probably with a yawn, is that they are so boringly true. But love at first sight is never boring.

Even a doomed man might reasonably be expected to take some slight interest in a few thousand square meters of gems. He

throbbed into silence… "And that's the way it was—goodbye, wonderful and terrible Twentieth

He was now probably the world's leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time

Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?

Of all the machines in this great cavern, it was the only one which had shown any cognizance of man, and its greeting seemed a little contemptuous. For on the screen appeared the words: STATE YOUR PROBLEM PLEASE THINK CLEARLY Ignoring the implied insult, Alvin began his story.

Yet there was also something slightly spooky about them. Norton could never understand how men with advanced scientific and technical training could possibly believe some of the things he had heard Cosmo Christers state as incontrovertible fact.

Do you believe in ghosts, Dim?" "Certainly not: but like every sensible man, I'm afraid of them. Why do you ask?

it was an accident—that had killed Frank Poole.

They'd all been carefully screened by the F.B.I., so probably not more than half a dozen were active members of the Communist Party.

Stormgren had walked to his desk and was fidgeting with his famous uranium paperweight. He was not nervous—merely undecided.

the only rule regulating shipboard sex was "So long as you don't do it in the corridors and frighten the simps.