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Quotes About Starship

Somewhere in the Acceleration, colorless green ideas adrift in furious sleep remember a tiny starship launched years ago, and pay attention.
~ Charles Stross
But the destruction of any starship was a shocking thing to witness. Resilient and ferocious as they might appear, she was keenly conscious of the fragile life-forms protected by the hulls and armaments. Those weren't just ships exploding before her eyes. They were sentient beings, each of whom had families, friends, hopes, dreams, lives, until they met with unassailable force and ceased to exist in a brilliant flash of light.
~ Kirsten Beyer
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.' Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.
~ Neal Stephenson
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.
~ Neal Stephenson
That quieted her down a little bit. But after a while, she said: "Do you need transportation? Tools? Stuff?" "Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.
~ Neal Stephenson
Not it. Her. Give the Falcon some respect, kid.
~ Chuck Wendig
On the landing field were two wind-blasted shuttles, along with Tarkin's personal starship, the Carrion Spike.
~ James Luceno
Starship was a whole different thing. It was pop rock. It made more money and had more hit songs than Airplane. There was no cultural or social ethic behind it. For me, it was like selling out. I was the only one selling out. The rest enjoyed doing what they were doing.
~ Grace Slick
I love heavy metal, Metallica. I'm into Jefferson Starship and acid rock.
~ DJ Premier
'The Starship Avalon' is perpetually mobile. The music is designed to give the impression of endless sleep and endless journey with a significant interruption that guides the story that follows. It's color and pulse followed by great size.
~ Thomas Newman
Something we often struggle with on pictures is the right way to shoot live-action elements that are for an environment that's very complicated from a lighting standpoint. An example is a starship flying through an environment that's constantly changing.
~ John Knoll
SCOTTY: She's all yours, sir. All systems automated and ready. A chimpanzee and two trainees could run her! CAPTAIN KIRK: Thank you, Mr. Scott. I'll try not to take that personally. —STAR TREK
~ Timothy Ferriss
When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.
~ George Takei
When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
~ Majel Barrett
It was a starship, and it was all that word implied. Off-dirt, the void, distant worlds whose names he couldn't spell.
~ Dan Abnett
me something!" Scrambling to his feet in the darkness, Commander Korsin craned his neck to find the hologram. "Thrusters, attitude control—I'll take parking jets!" A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly. An old spacer's line: trite, but weighty enough to lend a little authority. Korsin had used it himself on occasion. But not today. His ship was being deadly all on its own—and his crew was just along for the ride.
~ John Jackson Miller
ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship. apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken. millennium falcon. trademarked. all rights reserved. no! wait, i have it! dragin star! thats it! dragon star!
~ Margaret Weis
Consciousness is a starship in an endless space of thoughts, a cartoon-dimensional universe of various levels of awareness.
~ Unknown
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.
~ Neal Stephenson
Laser radar guided the starship
~ Peter F. Hamilton
The project didn't deserve this; they were trying to achieve something noble and right with the starship. No piece-of-shit trendy-cause rebel outside the political process had the right to screw with that.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Massive starship building programme initiated in O'Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160: Great Dispersal.
~ Peter F. Hamilton