Silly B5 Quote Conversation

[alpha128]

"As long as the trigger keeps transmitting, no boom."

"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom, sooner or later. BOOM!"

[AstroBoy]

"And if anything should happen to Babylon 5, they have instructions to track down that transmitter and... well, why spoil the surprise."

"As long as the trigger keeps transmitting, no boom."

[LateArrival]

"You see this? Paper-cut, hurts like hell. Anybody else would be upset, but to me it's just one more wonderful surprise."

"And if anything should happen to Babylon 5, they have instructions to track down that transmitter and... well, why spoil the surprise."

[alpha128]

"Fer better or worse, that's all we can do. Survive, and maybe one day, forget how much it can hurt to be human."

"You see this? Paper-cut, hurts like hell. Anybody else would be upset, but to me it's just one more wonderful surprise."

[Jan]

"Doesn't matter. If we lived two hundred years, we'd still be human. We'd still make the same mistakes."

"Fer better or worse, that's all we can do. Survive, and maybe one day, forget how much it can hurt to be human."

[alpha128]

"In the last five years, I've seen things off-world you can't even imagine. I've stood in the Abendi desert and watched all seven moons go into eclipse. I've walked in vaults that have been sealed longer than there's been a human race, breathing air that's five million years old. You call that a shortcut, if you will, but I've lived. By God, Stephen, I have lived."

"Doesn't matter. If we lived two hundred years, we'd still be human. We'd still make the same mistakes."

[AstroBoy]

"Thin air? Why is it always thin air? Never fat air, chubby air, mostly-fit-could-stand-lose-a-few-pounds air?"

"In the last five years, I've seen things off-world you can't even imagine. I've stood in the Abendi desert and watched all seven moons go into eclipse. I've walked in vaults that have been sealed longer than there's been a human race, breathing air that's five million years old. You call that a shortcut, if you will, but I've lived. By God, Stephen, I have lived."

[alpha128]

"It 's· just ... I am rarely in the presence of living history. It thins the atmosphere, makes you a little giddy ...."

"Thin air? Why is it always thin air? Never fat air, chubby air, mostly-fit-could-stand-lose-a-few-pounds air?"

[Jan]

"Well, actually it's more a question of what I can do for you, really, and what we can together do for Earth. I'm regional director of the newly-formed Ministry of Peace, or Minipax, as we like to call it around the office. We're trying to round up support for a series of new programs we're launching."

"It 's· just ... I am rarely in the presence of living history. It thins the atmosphere, makes you a little giddy ...."

[alpha128]

"I fully understand, Madame President. No one in this room is more suspicious of these things than I am, no race more prideful than the Centauri. But we are tired of war and believe that this will help to create peace between us."

"Well, actually it's more a question of what I can do for you, really, and what we can together do for Earth. I'm regional director of the newly-formed Ministry of Peace, or Minipax, as we like to call it around the office. We're trying to round up support for a series of new programs we're launching."

[AstroBoy]

"My orders are quite specific. You are to know pain. You are to know fear. And then you are to die at the required hour. I confess I'll be happy when this assignment is finished. Delaying the target's suspicions can be so time-consuming."

"I fully understand, Madame President. No one in this room is more suspicious of these things than I am, no race more prideful than the Centauri. But we are tired of war and believe that this will help to create peace between us."

[alpha128]

"Couple of hours in hard vacuum'll do him and the gene pool a world of good."

"My orders are quite specific. You are to know pain. You are to know fear. And then you are to die at the required hour. I confess I'll be happy when this assignment is finished. Delaying the target's suspicions can be so time-consuming."

[Jan]

"I'll tell you one thing. If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they'd have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea! Hell, I always thought the opposable thumb was overrated!"

"Couple of hours in hard vacuum'll do him and the gene pool a world of good."

[AstroBoy]

"Humanity is my business. Marley to Scrooge. Dickens. A Christmas Carol. Well I say they've continued the fine tradition of recruiting from the shallow end of the gene pool."

(You'll get the connection if you know A Christmas Carol. Scrooge shares Mollari's Neo-Malthusian sentiments).

"I'll tell you one thing. If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they'd have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea! Hell, I always thought the opposable thumb was overrated!"

[G'Quan]

"Take the famine as a blessing, Ambassador: a weeding out of the excess population."

"Humanity is my business. Marley to Scrooge. Dickens. A Christmas Carol. Well I say they've continued the fine tradition of recruiting from the shallow end of the gene pool."

(You'll get the connection if you know A Christmas Carol. Scrooge shares Mollari's Neo-Malthusian sentiments).