Quotes About Saucer

then sat down to do what every galactic hitchhiker ends up spending most of his time doing. They waited for a flying saucer to come by.

On the table spread out beside a coffee cup was a copy of El Diario, a Spanish language newspaper, also a saucer with cigarette stubs, a dirty plate, a tiny radio which emitted music. The music stopped and a man began to rattle off a commercial in Spanish. I turned it off. The silence fell like a bag of feathers.

I ordered another rum St. James and I watched the girl whenever I looked up, or when I sharpened the pencil with a pencil sharpener with the shavings curling into the saucer under my drink.

He handed her her pills and the cup; her hands trembled; he had to support the saucer and he thought, inappropriately, of a priest offering communion.

Her voice was husky, vibrating, slightly flat, coming in just under each note like a saucer under a cup.

A cat isn't fussy — just so long as you remember he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and eat it off the floor.

Do you think the saucer actually had an inertialess drive—like E. E. Smith's bergenholms or something?" Harry McHeath asked Doc.  "Have to, I'd think, the way it was jumping around. In a situation like this, science fiction is our only guide. On the other hand—

Supposing A sinister spacecraft came down on the field, And a hatch in the saucer slid back and revealed - A nightmare of Martians, all grey and green streaks, And they each had three legs and three eyes and three beaks! ... Eric Finney

She tipped her cup over the saucer and then looked at the tea leaves. "It's a fine thing for a Marxist to say," she added, "but I do see signs of happiness here." She cheated, though, moving one tea leaf alongside another to improve the omens.

T]heir cats will be looked after too -- one only hopes Daisy won't put in more food for them than for the humans.' Faustina [the cat] looked up from her saucer, her dark face made all the more reproachful by its beard of milk.

Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.

I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.

memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

If you cross an onion with a UFO, what you get is a flying saucer that brings tears to your eyes.

This last year she has been in danger of becoming an eccentric or else one of those persons who does not bother to put a saucer under her cup.

I you look at the drawings of aliens made by people who believe that Earth is under saucer attack, you'll quickly note that most of these invaders fit the Tinseltown mold. But you have to admit: the grays are highly anthropomorphic.

I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.

she counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the cliff to cheer him up.

I'm going to have real tea," she said. I smiled in confusion. "With your tea bag," Beth said, and reached across the table to the saucer where my discarded tea bag lay like a dead mouse. Being a resourceful traveler, she popped the thing into her cup.

Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.

Fox picked up the cup and blew across its surface. He knew it was going to be the cheapest brand of powdered instant; knew the cup wasn't as clean as it could be. But he would remember the smell and the taste and the pattern on the saucer for the rest of his life.