Author: Connie Willis

Cites

• John Pentland Mahaffy (1)
  • IN: Crosstalk (2016) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In Ireland, the inevitable never happens, and the unexpected constantly occurs
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
• de St Exupery, Antoine (1)
  • IN: Crosstalk (2016) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages
    FROM: Night Flight, (1931), Novel, France
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Crosstalk (2016) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Listen up.
    FROM: Ghost Town, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Passage (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Shut up, shut up, I am working Cape Race.”
    FROM: Wireless message from the Titanic, cutting off an ice warning the Californian was trying to send, (1912), [NA], UK
  • IN: Remake (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The girl seems to have talent but the boy can do nothing.
    FROM: Vaudeville booking report on Fred Astaire, (1909), NULL, US
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997) Science Fiction, Comedy, American
    EPIGRAPH: …a harmless, necessary cat
    FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
• Gustave Flaubert (1)
  • IN: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997) Science Fiction, Comedy, American
    EPIGRAPH: God is in the details.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], France
• Mollie Panter-Downs (1)
  • IN: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997) Science Fiction, Comedy, American
    EPIGRAPH: "It would have been nice to start fresh without those messy old ruins,” she said. “They’re a symbol, dear,” said her friend.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Edith Haisman (1)
  • IN: Passage (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I will remember it forever, the darkness and the cold.
    FROM: Edith Haisman, a Titanic survivor, (None), Conversation, UK
• Callimachus (1)
  • IN: Passage (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “What is it like down there, Charides?” “Very dark.” “And what of return?” “All lies.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Goethe (1)
  • IN: Passage (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: More light!
    FROM: Goethe’s last words, (1832), Conversation, Germany
• Steve Williams (1)
  • IN: Remake (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Not much is impossible.
    FROM: Industrial Light and Magic, (None), NULL, Canada
• Brother Clyn, John (1)
  • IN: Dooms Day (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And lest things which should be remembered perish with time and vanish from the memory of those who are to come after us, I, seeing so many evils and the whole world, as it were, placed within the grasp of the Evil One, being myself as if among the dead, I, waiting for death, have put into writing all the things that I have witnessed. And, lest the writing should perish with the writer and the work fail with the laborer, I leave parchment to continue this work, if perchance any man survive and any of the race of Adam escape this pestilence and carry on the work which I have begun…
    FROM: NULL, (1349), NULL, Ireland
• Ronald Blythe (2)
  • IN: Dooms Day (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What a ringer needs most is not strength but the ability to keep time… You must bring these two things together in your mind and let them rest there forever—bells and time, bells and time.
    FROM: Akenfield, (1969), Book, UK
  • IN: Doomsday Book (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What a ringer needs most is not strength but the ability to keep time…You must bring these two things together in your mind and let them rest there forever — bells and time, bells and time.
    FROM: Akenfield, (1969), Book, UK
• Robert Browning (1)
  • IN: Bellwether (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives— Followed the Piper for their lives. From street to street he piped advancing, And step by step they followed dancing.
    FROM: The Pied Piper of Hamelin, (1842), Poem, UK
• Dr Gedanken (1)
  • IN: At The Rialto (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Seriousness of mind was a prerequisite for understanding Newtonian physics. I am not convinced it is not a handicap in understanding quantum theory.
    FROM: Excerpt from Dr. Gedanken’s keynote address to the 1988 International Congress of Quantum Physicists Annual Meeting, Hollywood, California, (1988), Speech, US
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: Blackout (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History is now and England.
    FROM: Four Quartets, (1943), Poem, UK
• Delmore Schwartz (1)
  • IN: Fire Watch (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Time is the fire in which we burn.
    FROM: "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day", (1938), Poem, US
• Sir Raleigh, Walter (1)
  • IN: Fire Watch (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
    FROM: The History of the World (1614), Preface, (1614), Book, UK
• Bruce Catton (1)
  • IN: Lincoln's Dreams (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It may be that life is not man’s most precious possession, after all. Certainly men can be induced to give it away very freely at times, and the terms hardly seem to make sense unless there is something about the whole business that we don’t understand. Lives are spent for very insignificant things which benefit the dead not at all—a few rods of ground in a cornfield, for instance, or temporary ownership of a little hill or a piece of windy pasture; and now and then they are simply wasted outright, with nobody gaining anything at all.
    FROM: Mr. Lincoln’s Army, (1951), Book, US
• Stephen Vincent Benet (1)
  • IN: Lincoln's Dreams (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They bred such horses in Virginia then, Horses that were remembered after death And buried not so far from Christian ground That if their sleeping riders should arise They could not witch them from the earth again And ride a printless course along the grass With the old manage and light ease of hand.
    FROM: John Brown's Body, (1928), Poem, US
• Winston Churchill (2)
  • IN: All Clear (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
    FROM: My Early Life, 1874-1904, (1930), Book, UK
• Brother John Clyn (1)
  • IN: Doomsday Book (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And lest things which should be remembered perish with time and vanish from the memory of those who are to come after us, I, seeing so many evils and the whole world, as it were, placed within the grasp of the Evil One, being myself as if among the dead, I, waiting for death, have put into writing all the things that I have witnessed. And, lest the writing should perish with the writer and the work fail with the laborer, I leave parchment to continue this work, if perchance any man survive and any of the race of Adam escape this pestilence and carry on the work which I have begun…
    FROM: Doomsday Book, (1349), Book, Ireland