Paul The Alien Quotes & Sayings

Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the public where that is. We could say that we've picked up a signal, but we should not tell them where for the simple reason that anybody could commandeer a radio telescope, set themselves up as some self appointed spokesperson of mankind and start beaming all sorts of crazy messages back to the aliens. — Paul Davies

To escape the deepening grip of multinational corporations and the Coca-colonisation of the weird. Out here, you could still have your mind eaten by an alien phantom, stumble upon a lost city, or discover a fraying thread of some kind of weird quantumised metamaterial that could kick-start a new industrial revolution and make you a billionaire. Out here were places not yet mapped. Old dreams and deep mysteries. A world wild and strange and still mostly unknown. — Paul McAuley

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance. — Paul Davies

Sadly this process started early in our history with Adams's Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 and has continued through our history to the present day with Obama reinvigorating the Espionage Act of 1917. — Ron Paul

What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0." — Paul Davies

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I believe that we are henceforth incapable of returning to an order of moral life which would take the form of a simple submission to commandments or to an alien or supreme will, even if this will were represented as divine. We must accept as a positive good the critique of ethics and religion that has been undertaken by the school of suspicion. From it we have learned to understand that the commandment that gives death, not life, is a product and projection of our own weakness. — Paul Ricoeur

Rather than fill me with ecstasy or gladness, this breakthrough overpowered me with dread. I didn't know myself anymore. I was inhabited by something that wasn't me, and that thing was so terrible, so alien in its newness, I couldn't bring myself to talk about it. I let the tears come pouring out of me, and once I started, I wasn't sure I'd ever be able to stop — Paul Auster

True maturity is in attitude and a true attitude is maturity. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You must live what you wish to receive. — Bryant McGill

I'm older than I was before when I was young. — Julianne Moore

But aren't lovers always tempted to find another? You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject him who first loved you and follow after the intoxicating scents. — Ted Dekker

If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months ... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus. — Paul Krugman

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country. — John Paul Stevens

Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal "disturbed" child, not an alien. — Doris Lessing

More climbers die during the descent than on the way up."
Karakaredes seems to be considering this. After a minute he says, "Yes, but here on the summit, there must be some ritual ... "
"Hero photos," gasps Paul. "Gotta ... have ... hero photos."
Our alien nods. "Did ... anyone ... bring an imaging device? A camera? I did not. — Dan Simmons

But most of all, remember that marriage is about much more than mere carnal desire. It's about being good to each other. It's about being kind. It's about seeking the very best within your own soul and sharing that very best, that goodness, with your partner. Only then will you truly start your new life together. Only then will you truly be married. — Jane Lotter

The pages were yellowed and had gone to brown at the edges. They were brittle, much like the memories the photos evoked. — Michael Connelly

Archer! Let us fetch a spot of tea, old boy! — Rachel Hawkins

The labels on the little bottles and boxes do not tell you which one is the sleeping pill. Instead they have names, long strange names that slide out of shape while you are reading them. They sound like kings from history or alien planets. There are hundreds of them. — Paul Murray

Man.
Motorcyle.
Mountains. — Tracy March

I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man's gleam A better fate than for the common nights Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth In your eyes who reveal to us Our endless solitude Are no longer what they thought themselves to be You cannot be known Better than I know you. — Paul Eluard

I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion. — David Bowie

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously. — Paul Davies

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. — Salman Rushdie

I think you should really really be sure you love someone + that they love you back before you get into a relationship. — Hillary Frank

A woman with long, blonde hair stood for a moment on the other side of the door. She looked similar to his date. Was she entering or leaving the coffee house?
Before Paul could confirm her identity or stand and run after her, she strode away and disappeared in the crowd. — Cheryl Sterling

Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed itself in terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer. Any other teaching about the origin and makeup of the universe is so alien to the intentions of the Bible, which does not wish to teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven. — Pope John Paul II

Your eyes in which I travel
Have given to signs along the roads
A meaning alien to the earth. — Paul Eluard