Quotes About Alien

Language is a virus from outer space.

push its own stomach out through its mouth and into the shell. After digesting the animal, the starfish then slides its stomach back into its own body. That sounds like something out of an alien movie!

what planet did you parachute in from

They are vulgar and dirty-minded and alien to grace, and I would not, if I could -- which I hasten to say I cannot -- cross their obscenities with a wit which is foreign to them and gild their futilities with the glamour which by birth and breeding and performance they do not possess.

Call him the chameleon: an alpha male who never had sons, unless an adulterer cooperated. Unlike the changeling, he did have DNA, but it was alien; he could no more reproduce with a human than he could with a rock or a tree.

like Daleks in Dr Who.

It's a big world, isn't it?' said Georgie. 'Do you think they hate each other on other planets too?

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful.

They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

The desert was outside my range, it was an alien being, it was science fiction, both saturating and remote, and I had to force myself to believe I was here.

mother-in-law still demanded obedience and reverence while never behaving in a manner that would merit either. This alien presence, imposed upon a person's life by sheerest chance, made ever-increasing demands in return for the vain promise of domestic harmony. Resistance was futile, for opposition inevitably led to

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.

They, too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape, centuries dead; they'd had the experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.

The Arcturians had been the first alien race mankind had encountered, and those initial meetings had marked a turning point for the human race.

You ever see a cute, furry alien?

Whatever is known has always seemed systematic, proven, applicable, and evident to the knower. Every alien system of knowledge has likewise seemed contradictory, unproven, inapplicable, fanciful, or mystical. May not the time have come to assume a less egocentric, more general point of view and to speak of comparative epistemology?

How do we change - within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot remember what we were.

despite the Turks' friendliness, most of the exiles soon left Istanbul. No opportunities existed there for them, and Turkey seemed an alien land. Private individuals proceeded to western Europe, French visas being most sought after. Russians still regarded Paris as the center of civilization, especially in contrast to the ferocious Stone Age into which Russia had fallen, or to the sleepy lands of the former Ottoman Empire.

inquiry of Jack Cardigan: 'What's the use of keepin' fit?' or, more simply, to the fact that he was a foreigner, or alien as it was now called.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

There was life in outer space, but you didn't want to get it on you.

Many of the locals weren't too happy with Irish immigrants full stop, but they certainly weren't happy with a Catholic school, attached to a church, in the middle of these working-class council flats. They viewed that very much, I suppose, as people view a mosque today, as an alien agenda, and considered you an outsider for having anything to do with it.