Silly B5 Quote Conversation

[AstroBoy]

"Now, landing thrusters.. landing thrusters, hmm. Now if I were a landing thruster, which one of these would I be?"

"Maybe you might find something useful by sheer accident. But maybe you'll push the wrong button and blow yourself up."

[Jan]

"Maybe you might find something useful by sheer accident. But maybe you'll push the wrong button and blow yourself up."

"They have not yet absorbed the quiet core of what it is to be Anla-Shok. They are...intemperate."

[glindros]

"They have not yet absorbed the quiet core of what it is to be Anla-Shok. They are...intemperate."

Be a nice Minbari, conform, be quiet, admit that you are inadequate.

[AstroBoy]

Be a nice Minbari, conform, be quiet, admit that you are inadequate.

"I don't have much time, son. I want you to know you were right. I didn't want to admit that. Just .. pride, I guess. Yet, my age, you get kind of set in your ways. That had to be done, don't blame yourself .. for what happened later."

[DaveNarn]

"I don't have much time, son. I want you to know you were right. I didn't want to admit that. Just .. pride, I guess. Yet, my age, you get kind of set in your ways. That had to be done, don't blame yourself .. for what happened later."

"Except, of course, Captain, we didn't lose the war. The Minbari did surrender."

[phazedout]

"Except, of course, Captain, we didn't lose the war. The Minbari did surrender."

I said that we surrendered. I did not say that we gave up our sovereign rights to form a new government. Dukhat said that in every battle, one side or the other must surrender eventually.

[AstroBoy]

I said that we surrendered. I did not say that we gave up our sovereign rights to form a new government. Dukhat said that in every battle, one side or the other must surrender eventually.

"No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."

[glindros]

"No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."

Nobody wants to die, especially not out there in the cold of space, so you surrendered. They took you aboard their ship, fixed you some milk and cookies and asked you to work for them, be their eyes, their ears, their voice. You agreed. You and god knows how many other people. And then they let you go

[Ubik]

Nobody wants to die, especially not out there in the cold of space, so you surrendered. They took you aboard their ship, fixed you some milk and cookies and asked you to work for them, be their eyes, their ears, their voice. You agreed. You and god knows how many other people. And then they let you go

"You're more trouble than a toilet full of snakes.."

[AstroBoy]

"You're more trouble than a toilet full of snakes.."

"You don't even know what trouble is. But you're going to find out, real soon."

[Ubik]

"You don't even know what trouble is. But you're going to find out, real soon."

"I never get involved with my own life. It's too much trouble."

[Jan]

"I never get involved with my own life. It's too much trouble."

"It wouldn't have mattered...it wouldn't have changed anything. They would not have stopped."

[Ubik]

"It wouldn't have mattered...it wouldn't have changed anything. They would not have stopped."

"Please don't speak that way. No one knows what is written in the stream until the waters surround him".

[babylonlurker]

"Please don't speak that way. No one knows what is written in the stream until the waters surround him".

"They're *all over* the place . . . They're killing us . . ."

[Dr Maturin]

"They're *all over* the place . . . They're killing us . . ."

"Tick, you're alive. Tock...well, it was a good life, but a short one."