Portal Quotes

“Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!”
― J.K. Simmons

“This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
You don't even care, do you?”
― J.K. Simmons

“Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.”
― A.D. Posey

“Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.”
― Lisa Bu

“Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half of winter. A Quinn is like a queen, but draggier, and cheaper to buy and use for personal gain, unless you’re suspicious that you’re poor and illiterate like Jarod Kintz, in which case Quinns could be the spirits of your dead relatives, come to haunt you until you gather a massive fortune through selling books on the internet, to send some back in time through a portal you bought from the NSA, so they would have lived better lives without having to move a finger for their fortune. Oh, yah, and since they aren’t - they’re blue, like smurfs, yet they turn purple whenever tickled on the belly, which is something they seem to rather dislike, since they start biting and scratching when it happens, for no good reason, I might add.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Rocketing fears for Grandfather aside, the whole music puzzle starts to make sense. “It’s more than a flash mob,” I insist. “Ask Professor Walker, this is Grandfather’s exit song. It’s like his portal of departure.” But Mom’s not listening. She’s preoccupied, apparently puzzled by Dad’s astonishment. Why isn’t anyone listening to me?”
― Michael Benzehabe, Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“Death does not end my life, it opens the door to a life without end.”
― J.R. Rim

“And the One will reveal the Bow of the Southern Star and conquer the enemy with courage and fine judgment. The sight of the One is true and the enemy cannot hide. Griffon will fly”
― Barbara T. Cerny, Shield of the Palidine

“And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle”
― Barbara T. Cerny, Shield of the Palidine

“Praise is the portal to the presence of God.”
― David Brazzeal, Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul

“Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my ‘yesterday’ to construct the sturdy portal to my ‘tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Well done. Here come the test results: You are a horrible person...I'm serious, that's what it says: "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that. Don't let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It's just a data point...If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother's decision to abandon you on a doorstep.”
― GLaDOS

“The portal was opening!”
― Brett Salter, The Search For Synergy

“Speaking of boxes...

Do you know that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison? Theory requires the cat to be both alive and dead until observed.

Well, I actually performed the experiment. Dozens of times. The bad news is reality doesn't exist. The good news is we have a new cat graveyard.”
― Ted Kosmatka, Portal 2: Lab Rat

“By the second cycle of the solstice of the warm time, the One will face the enemy. And the One will unearth the Shield of the Northern Lights and smote the enemy with daring and intelligence. The heart of the One is pious and evil will cower. Couatl will rise.”
― Barbara T. Cerny, Shield of the Palidine

“And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce”
― Barbara T. Cerny, Shield of the Palidine

“Your dream is a portal to your destiny.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Explore the mysteries of life through the portal of the body. This offers freedom from all forms of attachment in order to help you experience your state of bliss.”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“I’d crossed the portal to the Spirit World looking for my family, for my life’s purpose; they weren’t what I’d expected, but I’d found them both in Faivendei.”
― Yana Metro, Luminiferos: The Omen of Light

“But your art creates a window into another world...That is a true gift, to help others see the world in a different way.”
― Rebecca Ross

“By taking the key, you have accepted the Artifact of the Lost Portal Quest. Any sentient life who holds this key holds access to the burden of awareness. Your access must be earned.”
― Bruce X. Brown, Lost Portals: LitRPG Omniverse 1

“Sensuality is the portal through which God permeates every aspect of our beings so He can express His absolute beauty, passion and depth through us.”
― Lebo Grand

“Das übernatürliche Lachen der Kreatur donnerte über die Wiese.
Weitere Feuerbälle schlugen in den Boden ein und beschrieben jetzt einen fast perfekten Kreis. Der Flammenring loderte hell auf und veränderte sich von leuchtendem Rot-Orange in eiskaltes Blau. In diesem Moment schossen die Flammen mehrere Yards in die Höhe und erzeugten einen Sog, der sie von den Füßen riss.
Dies war ein Höllenkreis, ein Portal zu einem der unwirtlichsten und schrecklichsten Orte, die ihnen bekannt waren: der Planet Hölle.”
― Nicole Gozdek, Inspired - Magie der Muse

“Beauty as a necessary portal to mysterious spiritual riches.”
― Erica Alex, Cake in the Blackbird Stew

“They say great science is built on the shoulders of giants. —Not here. At Aperture, we do all our science from scratch, no hand-holding.”
― JK Simmons

“Praying in tongues is the portal entry into the supernatural realm”
― Gabriel Ladokun

“Brahma Yoga seeks to reunite us through our practice to our place, presence, and purpose in this cosmos. It seeks to use the body as an elemental portal to align with the absolute transcendental reality of the universe”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“Would it be death? If so, she did not fear it, for she knew that her life would flow down the silver thread which always trailed her, to the Carrier of Spirits who would gather the rest of her in that vast sea of memory. Would she find her mother? She had found her mother. Would she go home? Where was home, anyway?

“The trees were full of fireflies, and suddenly, as if a new goddess came to meet her, the moon, a vast-seeming golden sphere of light, softened at the edges by the thickness of the air, rose and came toward her. She ran in her own globe of golden radiance until she felt that like Skaalya in the legend she could learn to fly. She would fly up, she would dive into the Moon, she would know what this goddess knew, she would give herself to the light which had at long last returned itself to her.

“She chased the moon toward her until they met at the doorway, the moon diving into the portal before Essa arrived. It was there, she knew, on the other side. Would she too pass through?

“She stood in wonder before the doorway: was this what ‘wondering’ truly meant? She could spend her life wondering.…

“Ahead of her was the bright doorway: green, iridescent, swirling, oval under the trees, lit from behind by the full moon.”
― Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine

“Those of you helping us test the repulsion gel today, just follow the blue line on the floor. Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts.”
― Cave Johnson - Portal 2

“The point is: If we can store music on a compact disc, why can't we store a man's intelligence and personality on one? So I have the engineers figuring that out now. Brain Mapping. Artificial Intelligence. We should have been working on it thirty years ago. I will say this - and I'm gonna say it on tape so everybody hears it a hundred times a day: If I die before you people can pour me into a computer, I want Caroline to run this place. Now she'll argue. She'll say she can't. She's modest like that. But you make her.”
― Cave Johnson - Portal 2