Silly B5 Quote Conversation

[glindros]

"Tell the other rangers, the ambassadors, everyone in this army of light. Babylon 5 stands with you. Tell them, tell them that from this place with will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness and we will hold that line no matter the cost."

("run boy, run boy!" -- from another mythic story)

Look, I've rigged the fusion reactors but there's not much time. Get going, I'll hold them as long as I can. Move it! Come on, this isn't a conversation.

[AstroBoy]

Look, I've rigged the fusion reactors but there's not much time. Get going, I'll hold them as long as I can. Move it! Come on, this isn't a conversation.

"Can anyone help us? This is commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5. To any ships in grid epsilon. We are under attack. I repeat, we are under attack. The captain is dead, defense grid is down, they are boarding us, they are coming in all over the place. We've tried to evacuate as many as we can, and Garibaldi has rigged the fusion reactor, but.. my god, here they come. Switch to external cameras. They've got weapons lock. Here comes. Here comes. Aah!"

(Gary, it seems great minds think alike)

[luvB5]

"Can anyone help us? This is commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5. To any ships in grid epsilon. We are under attack. I repeat, we are under attack. The captain is dead, defense grid is down, they are boarding us, they are coming in all over the place. We've tried to evacuate as many as we can, and Garibaldi has rigged the fusion reactor, but.. my god, here they come. Switch to external cameras. They've got weapons lock. Here comes. Here comes. Aah!"

(Gary, it seems great minds think alike)

"Personal Log, Michael Garibaldi. It's started. They are really doing it. This is what I was afraid would happen. But it has been coming for a long time . . . ever since Sheridan got back."

[Jan]

"Can anyone help us? This is commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5. To any ships in grid epsilon. We are under attack. I repeat, we are under attack. The captain is dead, defense grid is down, they are boarding us, they are coming in all over the place. We've tried to evacuate as many as we can, and Garibaldi has rigged the fusion reactor, but.. my god, here they come. Switch to external cameras. They've got weapons lock. Here comes. Here comes. Aah!"

"I think I'll go stick my head in the station's fusion reactor. It would be quicker, and I suspect that after a while I might even come to enjoy it."

[AstroBoy]

"I think I'll go stick my head in the station's fusion reactor. It would be quicker, and I suspect that after a while I might even come to enjoy it."

"Among my people this is how we celebrate state funerals. Our marriage ceremonies are solemn, sober, moments of reflection, also regret, disagreement, argument and mutual recrimination. Once you know it can't get any worse you can relax and enjoy the marriage. But to start with something like this.. No, it is a very bad sign for the future."

[Winged Heron]

"Among my people this is how we celebrate state funerals. Our marriage ceremonies are solemn, sober, moments of reflection, also regret, disagreement, argument and mutual recrimination. Once you know it can't get any worse you can relax and enjoy the marriage. But to start with something like this.. No, it is a very bad sign for the future."

I'm here to sign a non-aggression treaty with the Centauri. Before I leave here, there will be an Earth-Centauri alliance that will guarantee peace for Earth. We will, at last, know peace in our time.

[Jan]

I'm here to sign a non-aggression treaty with the Centauri. Before I leave here, there will be an Earth-Centauri alliance that will guarantee peace for Earth. We will, at last, know peace in our time.

"We gave you a promise. And we are bound by that promise. And damn you for asking for it, and damn me for agreeing to it, and damn all of us to hell because that is exactly where we are going! We talked about peace, you didn't want peace, we talked about cooperation, you didn't want cooperation. You want war. Is that it? You want a war? You've got a war."

[AstroBoy]

"We gave you a promise. And we are bound by that promise. And damn you for asking for it, and damn me for agreeing to it, and damn all of us to hell because that is exactly where we are going! We talked about peace, you didn't want peace, we talked about cooperation, you didn't want cooperation. You want war. Is that it? You want a war? You've got a war."

"It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain, matures into the promise of a better world. Because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past."

[Winged Heron]

"It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain, matures into the promise of a better world. Because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past."

That's really nice! I mean, with the war and all, I figured you folks wouldàwell, you know.

[glindros]

That's really nice! I mean, with the war and all, I figured you folks wouldàwell, you know.

I hate it when you get heroic. It cuts into my business. A man's gotta earn a living, you know?

(Gosh, you know jms has alot of "you know" quotes. Anyone game? If you know what I mean.)

[Jan]

I hate it when you get heroic. It cuts into my business. A man's gotta earn a living, you know?

"Absolutely. You kidding? I got a retirement pension to make, you know."

(Gosh, you know jms has alot of "you know" quotes. Anyone game? If you know what I mean.)

"I know what I know because I have to know it, and if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me and I don't let anyone else tell me either."

[Winged Heron]

"Absolutely. You kidding? I got a retirement pension to make, you know."


"I know what I know because I have to know it, and if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me and I don't let anyone else tell me either."

That's it? That's all you know?

[AstroBoy]

That's it? That's all you know?

"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things.

The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain, or to say goodbye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor, how to be rich, how to rediscover dream the world has stolen from you."

(Really was there any other answer? )

[Winged Heron]

"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things.

The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain, or to say goodbye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor, how to be rich, how to rediscover dream the world has stolen from you."

(Really was there any other answer? )

"I dreamt that I walked into C&C totallyà unprepared for my work."

(yes )

[circularREASON]

"I dreamt that I walked into C&C totallyà unprepared for my work."

(yes )

"It has occurred to me recently that I have never chosen anything. I was born into a role that had been prepared for me. I did everything I was asked to do, because it never occurred to me to choose otherwise. And now, at the end of my life, I wonder what might've been."