Cool Quotes

"On the subject of Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space Nine, I am long past innocence and fast approaching apathy."
The Admiral

"Speaking for the moment as an atheist, if I am elevated anywhere near godhood, then I will have to stop believing in myself, and I don't think I could handle the added insecurity at this stage of my life...."
J. Michael Straczynski, 29 Oct 1994

"I'm nothing if not inconsistent."
The Admiral, variously

"We are rapidly becoming a nation that is polarized along every possible line: gay vs. straight, feminist vs. conservative, pro-choice vs. anti-choice...in a nation of laws we have started to resort to acts of terror on large and small scales on either side of the spectrum. For two hundred years we prided ourselves on the idea -- sometimes flawed, and with occasional interruptions -- that we solved our problems at the ballot box, not with bullets or trunchens or muggings or firebombings. But now more and more both sides are frozen in concrete, opposing opinions are no longer tolerated or are proof of disloyalty or stupidity or cupidity or bigotry or immorality, people are reduced to stereotypes and jingoisms, everybody's demonized and nobody listens. We don't talk with each other, we yell AT each other. We are two steps away from madness and one step away from Beirut."
J. Michael Straczynski, 23 Jan 1995

"At my stupidest, I was never as stupid as the Boston Red Sox."
Ted Turner

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Jesse Helms is human."
J. Michael Straczynski, 7 Jun 1995

"I was a technical hitch."
Dave Yadallee, Summer 1994

"I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching darwinism and geometry in church."
J. Michael Straczynski, 22 Mar 1995

"I turned around on the set the other day and caught a photographer taking a picture of my rear end. Get this -- to be used on my official action figure! There are 10,000 better butts in Hollywood, so I told him to go out and find one."
Kate Mulgrew, 1994

"I'll have you know that playing 'My Achy Breaky Heart' to an unwilling listener is specifically forbidden under the Geneva War Crimes rules."
J. Michael Straczynski, 3 Mar 1995

"I promise you, I am sane."
Dave Yadallee, 2 Feb 1995

"You know he can't die until he rips his shirt and his lip bleeds first."
Beth Zecca about Kirk in STAR TREK: GENERATIONS, 18 Nov 1995

"Naturally, we all realize that when you play BAYWATCH backwards, you hear satanic messages."
Randy Lofficier, 17 Feb 1995

"My kingdom for a nerf-bat."
J. Michael Straczynski, 4 July 1995

"People seem so desperate to be told what to do... that's true of any age, of course, but everyone's looking for The Magic Solution. The self-help sections of the bookshops bulge, the didactic religions from the traditional to the new and weird gobble people up. It's as though some anchor has been lost, and everyone's running about like a chicken with its head cut off. It's a shame you can't buy common sense. :-)"
Kate Orman, 29 Apr 1997

"You know America has gone through a wormhole when Pat Buchanan is the voice of fairness and reason."
Jon Stewart, THE DAILY SHOW, 9 Nov 2000

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
Ernest Rutherford

"I learned that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and that those choices have consequences, not just for ourselves, but for others."
John J. Sheridan, BABYLON 5

"The strength of a civilization is measured not by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them."
Gene Roddenberry

"Freedom is not about being comfortable. It's about seizing and using opportunities -- and using them responsibly."
James Whitlaw, A MATTER FOR MEN (THE WAR AGAINST THE CHTORR: Book 1) by David Gerrold

"Listen, mate, never under ANY circumstances tell Jack Bauer `you're bluffing' when he's standing there in front of you with electrodes in his hand and you're tied up and wet. Cos, trust me, he ISN'T. EVER"
Keith Topping (about 24's Jack Bauer), 17 Mar 2005