Terminator Quotes

“Your clothes. Give them to me. Now.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Come with me if you want to live.”
― Jim Butcher, Skin Game

“There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.”
― James Cameron

“The ultimate irony in this vast struggle (available to audience members who want to think about it but easily ignored by those who accept the semi-happy ending ) is the irony in many time loop (or ontological paradox) stories: John Connor has created himself (though he has not gone as far as the character in Robert Heinlein’s “All You Zombies” who is both his own father and mother). Far worse, by saving his mother’s life and ensuring the destruction of the Terminator, John Connor has created Skynet just as surely as Skynet has created John Connor by trying to kill him. Both Connor and Skynet exist in a time loop without outside causality. The Terminator’s surviving arm makes Skynet possible, but it is never invented, only found and back-engineered. Kyle Reese comes across time for Sarah Connor because of a picture and because John Connor asks him to, but neither the picture nor John Connor would exist if Reese had not already gone back in time. The simplest way to save the world is to let the Terminator kill Sarah Connor. Then (in all probability), no one would find a piece of the advanced technology, and Skynet could not be built. But, Cameron’s plot suggests, the “perils to come that would result from our hubris and blind faith in technology” may be inescapable, a time loop, a feedback loop, leading directly if not necessarily inevitably to destruction."Fighting the History Wars on the Big Screen: From the Terminator to Avatar" from The Films of James Cameron”
― Ace G. Pilkington

“Pluto is dead, I know as I observed the Terminator that was sent to kill it”
― Steven Magee

“I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop, incompetent cop, aggressive cop, assaulting cop, corrupt cop, or the worst one of them all, the terminator cop.”
― Steven Magee

“I’ll be back!”
― Adrian Siska, The Next Step

“He looks like the Terminator in Tom Ford. I can assure you that he didn't dress so well before I met him. He didn't even use chopsticks.”
― Kate Meader, Then Came You

“Calling 911 may result in the ‘Terminator Cop’ being sent to you!”
― Steven Magee

“Yo creo que tenía que haber nacío en otra época y ser verduga. Con mi propia guillotina.”
― Greta García, Solo quería bailar

“A Lie (Artificial Intransigence) by Stewart Stafford

The morrow lies beyond
The grasp of our hands,
Fogged coastal shadows
Of mountains in distant lands.

Deities of tech Olympus,
Subhuman to simulated will?
Sage genius cannot tell,
But hubris claims to still.

The synthetic brainchild,
Squats on shoulders high
Of eyeless seers' vision,
Our sentient clone - AI.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford