Babylon 5 Quote of the Day

[|william|]

"It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. .. All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition or moments .. of revelation. This had the feeling of both."
"G'Quan wrote: 'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
-- G'Kar

(that is more of a speech but oh well)

[rklenseth]

You need to quote for today. Oh wait, I'll put one up.....

110 - Objects in Space

SIMON: This is a morality tale about the evils of sake.

JAYNE: You mean like masturbating?

JAYNE: You made that sound kinda ominous.

RIVER: It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think.

MAL: This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.

MAL: We're deep in space, corner of No and Where.

WASH: Little River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next?
ZOE: Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up.
WASH: I hope she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it.

JAYNE: Anybody remember her comin' at me with a butcher's knife?
WASH: Wacky fun.

JAYNE: You wanna go, little man?
WASH: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.

JAYNE: She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?

JAYNE: Later on you can explain to me how that's a comfort. Might have to use some of that "math" we've been hearin' about.

WASH: Yes, Jayne. She's a witch. She has had congress with the beast.
JAYNE: She's in Congress?
WASH: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

JAYNE: Yeah, and if wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak.

SIMON: I have to go check on my assassin.

SIMON: ... I thought the hospital was home. I was really making a difference there... and embarrassingly large stacks of money.

EARLY: You throw a monkey wrench into my dealings in any way, your body is forfeit. Ain't nothing but a body to me. And I can find all unseemly manner of use for it.

EARLY: I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though. I have a mighty roar.

SIMON: You're out of your mind.
EARLY: That's between me and my mind.

EARLY: You oughta be shot. Or stabbed. Lose a leg. To be a surgeon, you know? Know what kind of pain you're dealing with. They make psychiatrists get psychoanalyzed before they can get certified, but they don't make a surgeon get cut on. That seem right to you?

EARLY: People don't appreciate the substance of things. Objects in space. People miss out on what's solid.

RIVER: I'm not on the ship. I'm in the ship. I am the ship.

EARLY: Then who exactly are we talking to?
RIVER: You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.

EARLY: Where'd she go?
SIMON: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship.

EARLY: That's somewhat unsettling.

EARLY: You folks are all insane.
SIMON: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

RIVER: I know you have questions.
MAL: That would be why I just asked them.

EARLY: You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome.

WASH: What about his face? Is his face wearing armor?

WASH: Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.

SIMON: Okaaay. I'm just gonna pass out for a minute, but you're doing great.

MAL: Air he had left I'd say his chance would have to be one in... a very large number.

Actually a fe quotes from one of my favorite episodes of Firefly.

[|william|]

Morden: What do you want?

Vir: I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike – as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave . . . like this. Can your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?




Several years later, his head was placed on a pike and placed in the gardens on Centauri Prime and Vir did do his little wave.

[|william|]

Ok, today is two for Tuesday...

"There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless. And if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants. And we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us.

We know. We've tried. And we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on.

They are a mystery, and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe – that we have not yet explained everything.

Whatever they are, they walk near Sigma 957, and they must walk there . . . alone."
-spoken by G'kar to Catherine Sakai

[Meh]

Can you find the one of "What did the last of the {other race that once lived on Centauri Prime} say right before he died"?

It was at the end of the episode where a entire species died out due to a plague.

[Guest]

Yeah, I found it :

Londo: "Do you know what the last Xon said just before he died? Aaargh!"

[Guest]

Here are some others:

Tu'Pari: "Are you Ambassador G'Kar?"
G'Kar: "This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters. This is Ambassador G'Kar's table. This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner; which part of this progression escapes you?"


Vir: "Ah, he has become one with his inner self."
Garibaldi: "He's passed out."
Vir: "That too."

Bester: "That's a lie."
Sinclair: "Yes it is. What's your point?"

G'Kar: "Narns, humans, Centauri - we all do what we do for the same reason. Because it seemed like a good idea at the time."


ok, ok... enough for today

[|william|]

oops, forgot to log in for those two posts...

[Thomas Pickert]

All those quotes look very appealing to me. Can anyone fill me in on details of their origin?

[|william|]

As in what episode they were in?

[|william|]

Zathras: "We live for the One. We would die for the One."

Londo: "You know, it occurs to me, we haven't spent much time together, you and I. I hardly know anything about you."
Lennier: "From birth, I was raised in the temple and studied the ways of the religious caste. Six months ago I came here. There is nothing else."

Londo: "Now out of that fifty, how many gods do you think I must have offended to have ended up with G'Kar's teeth buried so deeply in my throat that I can barely breathe?"
Vir :"All of them?"
Londo: "Sounds right. And now I have to go back to the Council and explain to them that in the interest of peace the Centauri government will agree to give Quadrant 37 to the Narns. I think I will stick my head in the station's fusion reactor. It would be quicker. And I suspect, after a while I might even come to enjoy it. But this - this, this, this is like being nibbled to death by... what are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet... go 'quack'..."
Vir: "Cats."
Londo: "Cats. I'm being nibbled to death by cats."

There are todays quotes... the last one is rather humorous

[|william|]

erh, a few more..

Turhan: "No regrets then?"
Sheridan: "A few. But just a few. You?"
Turhan: "Oh, enough to fill a lifetime. So much has been lost, so much forgotten. So much pain, so much blood. And for what, I wonder. The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible inbetween. But there is still time to cease that one last fragile moment. To choose something better, to make a difference, as you say. And I intend to do just that."

Londo: "Vir, do you believe in fate?"
Vir: "Well, actually, I believe there are currents in the universe, eddies and tides that pull us one way or the other. Some we have to fight, some we have to embrace. Unfortunately the currents that we have to fight look exactly like the currents we have to embraces. The currents that we think are ones that are going to make us stronger they're the ones that are going to destroy us. And the ones that we think are going to destroy us, they're the ones that make us stronger. Now the other current..."
Londo: "Vir. Yes or no?"
Vir: "Yes, you know, somewhat."

Elric: "Oh, I'm afraid you have to spend the rest of your life paying for your mistakes. Not this one of course, it's trivial, I have withdrawn the spell, but there will be others."
Londo: "What are you talking about?"
Elric: "You are touched by darkness, Ambassador. I see it as a blemish that will grow with time. I could warn you, of course, but you would not listen. I could kill you, but someone would take your place. So I do the only thing I can, I go. Oh, I believe it was a endorsement you wanted, a word or two, a picture, to send to the folks back home confirming that you have a destiny to perform."
Londo: "It was just a thought, nothing more"
Elric: "Well, take this for what little it will profit you. As I look at you, Ambassador Mollari, I see a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand. And I hear sounds. The sounds of billions of people calling your name."
Londo: "My followers?"
Elric : "Your victims."


I truely recommend watching Babylon 5, especially if you are a true scifi fan. It has a great story line and is just truely fantastic... but if you are going to watch one, you should watch all of them, because it is one big story that goes through to the end of their lives. But if you are not a big tv fan, then at least read the books. There are also about 5 TV movies of B5, which are very good as well.

[Thomas Pickert]

OK, from your few hints, I concluded now, that Babylon 5 is primarily a tv series, but there also exist books. Personally, I prefer books. And I don't know if Babylon 5 is aired in Germany, anyway. Quite possible, though, as Babylon 5 rings a bell. I don't have many tv programs, though, so I'd like to stick to the books.

[|william|]

Yes, B5 is mostly a tv series. It also had several movies and a spinoff show. But yes there are also books, I believe around 5 or so that were based off of the show. Then there are many others that follow other stories of the "B5 Universe".

[|william|]

G'Kar: "Weep for the future, Na'Toth. Weep for us all."
Na'Toth: "Are you all right?"
G'Kar: "I have looked into the darkness, Na'Toth. You can not do that and never be quite the same again. When you told me about the destruction of our base at quadrant 37, I knew that only a major power could attempt an assault of that magnitude. But none of the governments here could've done it. Which left only two possibilities: a new race, or an old race. A very old race."

Londo: "Vir, do you believe in fate?"
Vir: "Well, actually, I believe there are currents in the universe, eddies and tides that pull us one way or the other. Some we have to fight, some we have to embrace. Unfortunately the currents that we have to fight look exactly like the currents we have to embraces. The currents that we think are ones that are going to make us stronger they're the ones that are going to destroy us. And the ones that we think are going to destroy us, they're the ones that make us stronger. Now the other current..."
Londo: "Vir. Yes or no?"
Vir: "Yes, you know, somewhat."

Alien Delegate: "She has brought something evil from the past, a soldier of darkness."
Londo: "That is rich, nothing like a good ghost story, eh?"
G'Kar: "Let him speak. I find this very interesting, go on."
Alien Delegate: "The faces of darkness do not move openly, they work through others, use other. When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered, hid themselves away in secret places and waited. Not the dark hand is reaching out and recalling them from their sleep."
Sheridan "And you think this woman is one of these soldiers of darkness."
Alien Delegate: "Evil sometimes wears a pleasant face."

Delenn: "We do not have cats on Minbar, we have gogs."
Sheridan: "Gogs?"
Delenn: "Gogs. Such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure that we never take ourselves too seriously."

Sinclair "Stay close to the Vorlon, and watch out for shadows - they move when you're not looking at them."