Ultron: Stark asked for a savior, and settled for a slave.The Vision: I suppose we’re both disappointments.Ultron: [laughs] I suppose we are.The Vision: Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and...

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn’t look like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, he’s going to keep digging, he’s going to keep trying to do right and...

Bottom line is, even if you see ’em coming, you’re not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets?...

Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What...

I’ll take crazy over stupid any day.

I also don’t trust Caribou anymore. They’re out there, on the tundra, waiting… Something’s going down. I’m right about this.

Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could’ve been good. There’s an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you can find something that you love, then you can do it. If you...

You can’t take the sky from me.

It’s my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another. — Malcolm Reynolds

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn’t suck.

Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It’s harsh and cruel. But that’s why there’s us. Champions. It doesn’t matter where we come from, what we’ve done or suffered, or even...

The news isn’t there to tell you what happened. It’s there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.

Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at – look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored...

Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you need to. Feel it…It’s not going to make a neat little hole. First – it’ll obliterate...

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny...

River Tam (Summer Glau): No power in the ‘verse can stop me.

My people – before I was changed – they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It’s a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty… and the heart… Well, you know… Wear...

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don’t like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

There’s a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called ‘fan fiction’.

I hope I’m being clear, I didn’t say I hate feminists, that would be weird. I said I hate feminist. I’m talking about the word.I have the privilege living my life inside of words and...

If you can’t run, you crawl. If you can’t crawl– you find someone to carry you.

She’s terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

Do you love me?What?Do you?I love you. I don’t know if I trust you.Maybe you shouldn’t do either.Maybe I’m the one who should decide!

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

Every day’s a negotiation and sometimes it’s done with guns.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, ‘How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?’ I said, ‘If you met...

All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past...

So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you’re still asking me that question.”[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it’s the hardest thing to do.

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

I can reverse the polarity of your ions!” Like in one big flash everybody’s Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don’t understand anything...

You’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save...

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that?Lassie, and she always gets a treat So you wonder what your part is Because you’re homeless and depressed But...

If you can’t do something smart, do something right.

Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there’s no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters… , then all that matters is what we do. ‘Cause that’s all there...

You either have to write or you shouldn’t be writing. That’s all.

Whedon: Studios will tell you: A woman cannot headline an action movie. After The Hunger Games they might stop telling you that a little bit. Whatever you think of the movie, it’s done a great...

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.

There was this other apocalypse this one time. And, well, I took off. But this time, I don’t… I don’t know.” “Well, what’s different?” “Well, I guess I was kinda new to being around humans...

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .

Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.