I thought I'd post some quotes from eps that have aired on SciFi so far. I might add some later (maybe once a day or so
). All in the persuit of greater neffage
. Enjoy
"Notice the waves, each moving in its own order. Predictable...unchanging.
But drop in a single stone and see how the pattern changes. Everything
around it is altered."
- Delenn to Sinclair(re: Japanese stone garden), "The Gathering"
"On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of one
mind to change the Universe. But none say it as clearly as this."
- Delenn to Sinclair(re: Japanese stone garden), "The Gathering"
"I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and
shooting one another. You would have thought sooner or later it would
go out of fashion."
- Londo, "The Gathering"
"The sky was full of stars and every star an exploding ship...one of ours."
- Sinclair (re: The Line), "The Gathering"
"Appearances aside, we're two completely different species."
'A clerical error.'
"Clerical error?'
"Yes, we thought your world was Beta 9, it was actually Beta 12.
O.K. we made a mistake, I'm sorry here,
[Offers his wrist.]
open my wrist.'
"Centauri don't have any major arteries in their wrist."
'Of course we don't, what do you think, I'm stupid?'
- Garibaldi and Londo, "Midnight On The Firing Line"
"So, who are you going to vote for?"
'I think I'll vote for Marie Crane. I do not like Santiago. I've always
thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin and
his vice-president has several. This, to me, is not a good combination.'
- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
"The Council can go to hell. The emergency session can go to hell.
And you, you can go to hell too. I wouldn't want you, to feel left out!"
- Londo to Vir, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
"Blood pressure is rising. Respiration is up twelve percent."
'So that's good right?'
"For a human yes. In this case it may be good. Or he may be
hyperventilating before his heart explodes all over the iso-lab."
'Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.'
- Franklin and Garibaldi, "Soul Hunter"
"We are drawn to the moment... the moment of surrender, the instant of
loss. Between despair and ecstasy. When the flesh fails and all that
remains behind, the soul we save. Not all. Only the special ones.
Leaders, thinkers, poets, dreamers, blessed lunatics."
- Soul Hunter #1 to Sinclair, "Soul Hunter"
"It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human life span is almost a hundred
years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. Wouldn't be
so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to
get it right and then... it's over."
'Doesn't matter. If we lived two hundred years, we'd still be human. We'd
still make the same mistakes.'
"You're a pessimist."
'I am *Russian*, Doctor. We understand these things."
- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, "Soul Hunter"
"I really hate it when you get heroic. Cuts into my business. Man's
gotta earn a living, you know?"
- Garibaldi to Sinclair, "Soul Hunter"
"What do you want you moon faced assassin of joy?"
- Londo to Vir, "Born To The Purple"
"Have you ever tried one of these?"
'What is it?'
"I'm not sure. According to the translator it's either an aphrodisiac
or floor wax. Can't decide if it's worth the risk or not."
- Garibaldi and Ms. Kramer, "Infection"
"The last time I gave an interview, they told me to just relax and say what
I really felt. Ten minutes after the broadcast, I got transferred to an
outpost so far off the starmap, you couldn't find it with a hunting dog
and a Ouija board."
- Sinclair to Garibaldi, "Infection"
"What's the worst that could happen? They fire you, ship you off to the
Rim and I get promoted to Commander. I don't see a problem here."
'How sharper than a serpent's tooth.'
- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Infection"
"Stephen? Stephen, there's a Martian war machine parked outside. They'd
like to have a word with you about the common cold."
'Tell them to make an appointment.'
- Vance Hendricks and Dr. Franklin, "Infection"
"The War gave them, definition, direction, purpose. Without it, they
don't know how to fit in anymore so they keep looking for ways to go out
in a blaze of glory. Some people call that being a hero, maybe so... I
don't know, I... I've never been one. Me, I think they're looking for
something worth dying for because it's easier than finding something
worth living for."
- Garibaldi to Sinclair, "Infection"
"Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a
bad idea and take care of our own problems at home?"
'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."
- Mary Ann Kramer and Sinclair(an interview), "Infection"
"You test my faith!"
'And you're testing my patience. Now move on before I decide to flunk out.'
- Drazi Emissary and Garibaldi, "The Parliament of Dreams"
"In a world where every day is a struggle for survival, you need all the
gods you can get."
- Londo to Ivanova, "The Parliament of Dreams"
"Ahhh... he has become one with his inner-self!"
'He passed out.'
"That too."
- Vir and Garibaldi(re:Londo passing out), "The Parliament of Dreams"
There's more, obviously, but they don't sound that well out of context.
"Notice the waves, each moving in its own order. Predictable...unchanging.
But drop in a single stone and see how the pattern changes. Everything
around it is altered."
- Delenn to Sinclair(re: Japanese stone garden), "The Gathering"
"On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of one
mind to change the Universe. But none say it as clearly as this."
- Delenn to Sinclair(re: Japanese stone garden), "The Gathering"
"I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and
shooting one another. You would have thought sooner or later it would
go out of fashion."
- Londo, "The Gathering"
"The sky was full of stars and every star an exploding ship...one of ours."
- Sinclair (re: The Line), "The Gathering"
"Appearances aside, we're two completely different species."
'A clerical error.'
"Clerical error?'
"Yes, we thought your world was Beta 9, it was actually Beta 12.
O.K. we made a mistake, I'm sorry here,
[Offers his wrist.]
open my wrist.'
"Centauri don't have any major arteries in their wrist."
'Of course we don't, what do you think, I'm stupid?'
- Garibaldi and Londo, "Midnight On The Firing Line"
"So, who are you going to vote for?"
'I think I'll vote for Marie Crane. I do not like Santiago. I've always
thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin and
his vice-president has several. This, to me, is not a good combination.'
- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
"The Council can go to hell. The emergency session can go to hell.
And you, you can go to hell too. I wouldn't want you, to feel left out!"
- Londo to Vir, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
"Blood pressure is rising. Respiration is up twelve percent."
'So that's good right?'
"For a human yes. In this case it may be good. Or he may be
hyperventilating before his heart explodes all over the iso-lab."
'Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.'
- Franklin and Garibaldi, "Soul Hunter"
"We are drawn to the moment... the moment of surrender, the instant of
loss. Between despair and ecstasy. When the flesh fails and all that
remains behind, the soul we save. Not all. Only the special ones.
Leaders, thinkers, poets, dreamers, blessed lunatics."
- Soul Hunter #1 to Sinclair, "Soul Hunter"
"It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human life span is almost a hundred
years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. Wouldn't be
so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to
get it right and then... it's over."
'Doesn't matter. If we lived two hundred years, we'd still be human. We'd
still make the same mistakes.'
"You're a pessimist."
'I am *Russian*, Doctor. We understand these things."
- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, "Soul Hunter"
"I really hate it when you get heroic. Cuts into my business. Man's
gotta earn a living, you know?"
- Garibaldi to Sinclair, "Soul Hunter"
"What do you want you moon faced assassin of joy?"
- Londo to Vir, "Born To The Purple"
"Have you ever tried one of these?"
'What is it?'
"I'm not sure. According to the translator it's either an aphrodisiac
or floor wax. Can't decide if it's worth the risk or not."
- Garibaldi and Ms. Kramer, "Infection"
"The last time I gave an interview, they told me to just relax and say what
I really felt. Ten minutes after the broadcast, I got transferred to an
outpost so far off the starmap, you couldn't find it with a hunting dog
and a Ouija board."
- Sinclair to Garibaldi, "Infection"
"What's the worst that could happen? They fire you, ship you off to the
Rim and I get promoted to Commander. I don't see a problem here."
'How sharper than a serpent's tooth.'
- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Infection"
"Stephen? Stephen, there's a Martian war machine parked outside. They'd
like to have a word with you about the common cold."
'Tell them to make an appointment.'
- Vance Hendricks and Dr. Franklin, "Infection"
"The War gave them, definition, direction, purpose. Without it, they
don't know how to fit in anymore so they keep looking for ways to go out
in a blaze of glory. Some people call that being a hero, maybe so... I
don't know, I... I've never been one. Me, I think they're looking for
something worth dying for because it's easier than finding something
worth living for."
- Garibaldi to Sinclair, "Infection"
"Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a
bad idea and take care of our own problems at home?"
'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."
- Mary Ann Kramer and Sinclair(an interview), "Infection"
"You test my faith!"
'And you're testing my patience. Now move on before I decide to flunk out.'
- Drazi Emissary and Garibaldi, "The Parliament of Dreams"
"In a world where every day is a struggle for survival, you need all the
gods you can get."
- Londo to Ivanova, "The Parliament of Dreams"
"Ahhh... he has become one with his inner-self!"
'He passed out.'
"That too."
- Vir and Garibaldi(re:Londo passing out), "The Parliament of Dreams"
There's more, obviously, but they don't sound that well out of context.