Whedonverse Quotes & Sayings

Standing on the left side of the runway was my battle-worn X-wing fighter. Parked on the right side was my DeLorean. Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut. Max had already powered up the engines, and they emitted a low, steady roar that filled the hangar. The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. The ship had been named the Kaylee when I'd first obtained it, but I'd immediately rechristened it after one of my favorite twentieth-century novelists. Its new name was stenciled on the side of its battered gray hull. I'd looted the Vonnegut from a cadre of Oviraptor clansmen who had foolishly attempted to hijack my X-wing while I was cruising through a large group of worlds in Sector Eleven known as the Whedonverse. The — Ernest Cline

At some point you have to love in order to be lovable. — Leanne Banks

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her. — Sean Durkin

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. — Sylvia Earle

Frankl asserts that "the potentialities of life are not indifferent possibilities, but must be seen in the light of meaning and values." Such meaning and values cannot be imposed; each individual must seek out for himself or herself the meaning of each situation and the implications the present moment may have for the future. — William Blair Gould

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. — Jodi Picoult

I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy. — Jennifer Lawrence

Every fashion, the fashion before: in a duller dress. — Dorothy Parker

A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home. — Uday Kotak