Author of quotes: Robert Sheckley. Page 7

Same to you - twice!

The ship rose at midnight. The flight was observed by the radar Department of the air force. The image emerged on the screen, explained the high concentration of marsh gas, which flew through a dense flock of swallows.

Cardoman:
- How long have you had the feeling that you - an extraterrestrial being?
Papazian:
- Shortly after I was born on Aldebaran.
Cardoman:
- We will save a lot of time, if you acknowledge that you are overwhelmed by strange ideas.
Papazian:
- We will save the same amount of time, if you acknowledge that I aldebarans caught in a difficult position

- Excellent, Lily! You said you were very pretty?
- No...
- I guess I was wrong. If you do not know, then how do you know me?

- You may be interested in that at the moment half of your customers - aliens. In makeup, of course.
Every second client turned pale.

... life - the essence of waiting. So, you should enjoy everything while waiting because only you can do.

- If the king is so rich, why can't he pay us?
The king never pays for what can get for nothing. That's why he's rich.

Correctly to ask a question, you need to know part of the answer.

Coming out of the ocean depths, soramame, magnifying himself as a Man, decided that since she has gray matter called the brain, it is paramount. And, having come to this conclusion, the amoeba kills fish and marine animals of the forest, killing without an account, obviously not thinking about the order of Nature. And then drills holes in the mountains, and tramples on the ground moaning heavy cities, and hides the green grass under the concrete crust... And then, rastrogavshis immensely, beyond measure, amoeba destroys mountains, irons plains, driving the forest changes the course of rivers... Nature is old and slow, but she is relentless. And here inevitably comes a time when nature tired of arrogant amoeba, with its claims to divine likeness. And therefore, there comes a time when a planet whose surface has a amoeba rejects her... that day, to my surprise, the amoeba discovers that lived only by the patient indulgence of the forces lying outside of her imagination, on a par with the creatures of the forests and swamps, no worse than the flowers, better seeds, and that the Universe is not matter whether she is dead or that her boastful achieve no more than a trace of the spider on the sand.

Only one breath separates you from death. What will you do with your pathetic moment?
- I live it. But what are moments?

When lying on the floor opened his eyes, he yawned and stretched herself luxuriously, feeling untold pleasure from light, and air, and bright colors, from a sense of satisfaction and the consciousness that there is in this world the work which he must perform, there is a love that he will experience, and still have a life to live.